Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 12:10 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 > workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? You are changing archs. RPM just wasn't meant to do that. There are no simple ways and as others pointed out the hard ones are not exactly safe. Fedora isn't intended to be upgraded live even for normal version updates so a live image and chroot is going to be involved. I'd suggest pulling a list of every package being managed by RPM with "rpm -qal" into a file and then get a list of every file on the system partition(s) with find, Now sort em and use diff to find files that aren't part of the OS. Either clean em up or preserve accordingly. Then use rpm -Va to find any files that are changed from the packaged one, usually config files but not always marked as such depending on how much tweaking you have done. Preserve the changed files. Finally use rpm -qa to get a listing of every package you have installed. After you have all of that and a FULL AND VERIFIED BACKUP just reinstall from scratch. Now is also a once in a long time opportunity to change filesystems btw. Now pull another rpm -qa list and compare the two, and pull in the missing packages. Finally you can reapply your config file changes. All that sounds like a lot of work, but it is probably quicker and certainly safer than some harebrained scheme to to an in place arch change. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?
On 06/28/2016 03:10 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? There is no simple way to do this. There are complex and dangerous ways. One way would be to install the x86_64 kernel and boot the system with it. Install an x86_64 bit system and configure it the way you'd like your target system to be set up. Use rsync to copy /lib64 and /usr/lib64 first, then use rsync to copy the remainder of the system. Otherwise, you'd probably boot the system from some other media and replace the i686 packages with x86_64 in a chroot-type setup. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?
Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/28/16 14:07, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Joachim Backes wrote: >> >>> does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation >>> to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? >> >> short answer: no > > Hi Rex, > > does your answer "no" mean that *you* don't know a solution, or does > "no" mean that my problem can't be solved in a simple manner? > > I fear you meant the last alternative :-) It means it's not easily possible (certainly not by any official/supported method). -- rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?
On 06/28/16 14:07, Rex Dieter wrote: Joachim Backes wrote: does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? short answer: no Hi Rex, does your answer "no" mean that *you* don't know a solution, or does "no" mean that my problem can't be solved in a simple manner? I fear you meant the last alternative :-) Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four) Kernel-4.6.3-300.fc24.x86_64 Joachim Backeshttp://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?
Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? short answer: no -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org