On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:28, ET wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 06:45 am, Mohand Talanana wrote: > > Rob Blomquist wrote: > > >On Saturday 07 May 2005 2:16 pm, Tony wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>I would like to upgrade my current 10.1 AMD64 installation to > > >>2005-Limited-Edition x86_64. > > >> > > >>Does anyone know if this is possible, or will I have to perform a clean > > >>install ? > > >>I'd like to find out before I download the 4Gb+ DVD files from > > >> bittorent. > > > > > >I did an urpmi installation of i686 and urpmi crashed during urpmi > > > upgrading. I finally got it fixed (a true pain in the butt) but it > > > finally finished. For me the big deal was getting xmms to work. The > > > upgrade upgraded some of the package XMMS needs, but not XMMS itself. I > > > had to backout of the upgradeded packages to get it in. > > > > > >So if x86_64 is anything like i686, problems are minor and should not be > > > a big deal. > > > > There is no problem, everything worked flawlessly on my AMD64 +3400. > > I have done 2 SMP opteron, and while the upgrade was flawless, it won't fix > a screwed up /home/username configuration.
Thanks for the reply's, sounds like it 'should' work, I'll make sure I do a backup first just in case, thanks again. Tony.
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