On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For the past couple months I've been working on finding a way to > successfully upgrade Fedora x86(32-bit) to x86_64(64-bit). I had almost > given up because nothing seemed to work despite dozens of different > approaches. Then a couple days ago I started a new set of experiments and > now I have successfully cross-upgraded three different systems using this > technique. On the three machines that I used, all the configs that I set up > were still in place after the upgrade. The machines behaved normally and I > have not found any sign of problems yet. But, it would be difficult to see > how this technique could ever be fully automated because it requires a > certain amount of manual inspection in a number of places. And it's > probably something that could not be officially supported. But at least it > appears there may now be a technique to perform a successful 32-bit => > 64-bit upgrade. And for those who have heavily configured machines this may > be worth a try. Anyway, here's the technique: > You sir, are a hero. I wanted to do exactly this once F11 is released and was disappointed to learn it wasn't possible in an earlier thread on this list (that I can't immediately find the link to). I think I will give this a try (won't be until next month, though). Worst case scenario is I just blat it away and reinstall from scratch, which is what I was planning anyway. -- Mat Booth www.matbooth.co.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
