Hi Sven, Thanks for that suggestion. I've quickly tried this on a test VM and indeed crossgrading seems to work much better in debian 9 compared to debian 7.
Thanks, Pieter > On 16 Jan 2018, at 16:03, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > > Pieter Van Isacker <pieter.vanisac...@lightspeedhq.com> wrote: > >> While testing change a Debian Wheezy from 32bit to 64bit I ran into an >> issue. Following the guide on https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading >> <https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading> Once we've change to 64bit we >> plan to update to Debian 8 and then possibly to Debian 9 > > You are better off first upgrading to Debian 9 and *then* trying to > crossgrade. The packages in Debian 9 are more prepared for multi-arch > than the one in Debian 7. > > Still, there is no guarantee it will work and for production systems I > strongly advise you to just backup the data and reinstall from scratch > as 64bit system. > > Grüße, > Sven. > > -- > Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. >
