Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-29 18:35 +0100, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks! Finally got the new machine set up to try the crossgrading, and everything worked just fine. There's just one issue remaining: a huge number of i386 packages on the machine show dependencies on either apt or dpkg, so any attempt to

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be neede (which will be

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2014 05:12 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration

clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be neede (which will be very minor). So, while I'm at it, I'm curious -- is there any clean