On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > ---- > > > sorry - reinstall is your only option > > > > Reinstall the kernel or the whole "OS" including the applications ? > > > > How do I "reinstall" and get the exact same set of applications that I > > currently have and keep all my user data ? > > > > I was hoping that I could change a setting from i386 to x86_64 and some > > magic would occur whereby everything got replaced. Even if I had to > > write a yum script to do it ? > > > Well, what you could do would be to reinstall, but don't reformat. At least > that way you'd keep all your "user" data. That's typically what I do, since > I > have a separate partition for /home. > I wonder what would happen if you did an "Upgrade" from F8 32-bit to F8 x86_64? Theoretically wouldn't it try and keep all the same packages installed but just replace them with their 64bit counterpart? Richard
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