Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages.
Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition. On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 > "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > you have to reinstall > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan > > <li...@itech7.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS > > > (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch > > > which is turn off I think. > > > How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ? > > > > > > -- > > > Nilesh Govindarajan > > > Facebook: nilesh.gr > > > Twitter: nileshgr > > > Website: www.itech7.com > > > > > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_Reinstalling >
