On Mon January 5 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > so what would I need to do to run amd64 ?? > > > > Re-install. > > It is, in theory, possible to start from a x86 system, build an amd64 > kernel, reboot and then walk your userland up to amd64 gradually. However, > I've never seen/heard of it done in practice, and it would be a tricky > (read: error-prone) set of steps. > > If you have some extra diskspace, you can even do the install in a chroot > (debootstrap FTW!) and only reboot once it is complete, minimizing > downtime.
so, in theory, if I had a spare slice of drivespace, I could do an amd64 install, using the same /home partition I now have, and have the capability to go from I686 to amd64.. and back, it something broke.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
