Am Samstag, 10. August 2013, 20:25:46 schrieb Gregory Seidman: > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > hanging). As a result, I have purchased a new (old and refurbished) > machine. The difference is that this one has an x86-64 whereas the old one > is 32-bit. > > Ideally, I'd like to move the HD from the old one to the new one, boot, and > tell it to upgrade all the packages for the new architecture. Is it that > easy? Are there complications I need to watch out for? Is there anything I > should do to prepare before moving the disk (e.g. must I replace LILO with > grub)?
Since Debian multiarch I think this is possible more easily. I believe that instructions are on the web, but I do not know the exact URL. So search for yourself. Avoid any pre multi-arch instructions. There are some with some blinking warning text (well pre iceweasel 23), I´d rather not try nowadays. Do a backup before I mean it: Do a backup before. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2308641.BJ2qvhN4B4@merkaba