Upgrade FC4 from x86 to x86-64?

Igor Guarisma iguarism at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 15 19:55:25 UTC 2005


Backup and upgrade!
If doesn't work.... you'll know ;)..

It seems some people had good luck doing this and some
did't... I haven't tryed it myself, but it's always
good practice to backup your files, and/or, if you are
an expert, have a rescue disc in hand.


 --- "ne..." <guhvies at gmail.com> escribió:

> 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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