> On 26 Nov 2020, at 13:02, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:34:16PM -0700, Fred wrote: >> I think Debian Jessie is 32 bit. To upgrade to Beowulf I just followed >> instructions that didn't say anything about 32 or 64. I just assumed >> Beowulf was 64 bit. > > Debian jessie was available in i386 and amd64 as far as I recall. > >> >> My CPU appears to be able to do 64 so how do I change over? > > Probably the easiest way is to do a fresh 64 bit install of > Beowulf. There might be a way to do a migration through dpkg > --add-architecture, but I'm not sure about that. > > Greg
The debian wiki has an article on doing this transition. https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading It also mentions a new package debian-crossgrading from google summer of code 2020 that appears to automate some of this. https://salsa.debian.org/crossgrading-team/debian-crossgrading
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