Upgrade FC4 from x86 to x86-64?

ne... guhvies at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 20:38:56 UTC 2005


On 7/14/05, Steve Bergman <steve at rueb.com> wrote:
> I am upgrading my FC4 Athlon XP system to an Athlon 64.  Do I need to do
> a reinstall?  Or can I upgrade?
For 32bit on Athlon64, you can upgrade. For 64bit, you have to install.
YMMV with an upgrade. I would advise an install in all cases saving
the contents of /etc & /home and then restore your settings. Since
I have multiple harddrives in my systems, I do parallel installs.

HTH
N.Emile...
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