-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mitja Podreka wrote: > Hello > > I've thought out my migration plan, but since the box in question is my > computer at work, I cannot afford to "loose" it for long. > I would like to ask you for opinion or suggestions. > > I was thinking to do it like this: > 1. Upgrade my 32bit Sarge to 32bit Etch > 2. Make a list of installed packages > 3. On separate partition install a base 64bit Etch > 4. Install the list of packages from 32bit Sarge > 5. Replace the /etc folder with /etc folder from 32bit Etch version > 6. Delete /home folder and mount /home partition in it's place > > Will it work? > > Thanks, > Mitja > >
Yes and no. 1) Should be fine. 2) Should be fine. 3) Should be fine. 4) Here you could run into problems because some packages that are available for 32-bit are not available for 64-bit, but there are not many, and most of those packages are non-free so if you stick to packages in main, you should be OK. 5) No, that would most surely break the system. Leave the 64-bit /etc like it is, just modify the files that you need to change. 6) That should work, although you're not specifying which system the /home is from. AFAIK, the configuration data in /home will be fine migrating it from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system as long as the versions of the programs that use said data are the same. Another way you might want to go about it, is to just upgrade a 32-bit setup to a 64 bit one, rather than installing multiple versions. That being said, I have both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version installed, but use the 32 bit version most of the time. I *could* use the 64-bit version and chroot to the 32-bit apps that I need that are not available for 64-bit, but it's not very often that I need the 64-bit power and it IMO isn't worth the trouble of setting it all up. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGYUQ4iXBCVWpc5J4RAmW2AJ928No0eIPt+pEd4s/Y/MvGYLC2hACfcyyZ Zjfwm0vWJUIA5CPPTdh9u8k= =dHlh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]