On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Gerry Reno <greno verizon net> wrote:
For the past couple months I've been working on finding a way to
successfully upgrade Fedora x86(32-bit) to x86_64(64-bit). I had almost
given up because nothing seemed to work despite dozens of different
approaches. Then a couple days ago I started a new set of experiments and
now I have successfully cross-upgraded three different systems using this
technique. On the three machines that I used, all the configs that I set up
were still in place after the upgrade. The machines behaved normally and I
have not found any sign of problems yet. But, it would be difficult to see
how this technique could ever be fully automated because it requires a
certain amount of manual inspection in a number of places. And it's
probably something that could not be officially supported. But at least it
appears there may now be a technique to perform a successful 32-bit =>
64-bit upgrade. And for those who have heavily configured machines this may
be worth a try. Anyway, here's the technique:
You sir, are a hero. I wanted to do exactly this once F11 is released
and was disappointed to learn it wasn't possible in an earlier thread
on this list (that I can't immediately find the link to).
I think I will give this a try (won't be until next month, though).
Worst case scenario is I just blat it away and reinstall from scratch,
which is what I was planning anyway.