Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Morty morty+debian-am...@frakir.org writes: What would it take to automate an upgrade of Debian x86 to amd64? I know there is no currently-supported way to do this. What would it take to make one? Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 03:25 AM, Morty wrote: What would it take to automate an upgrade of Debian x86 to amd64? I know there is no currently-supported way to do this. What would it take to make one? Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image that can be

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-10 Thread Morty Abzug
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:34:16PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: This isn't automatic, but it was a lot easier than it might otherwise have been. It is, however, trivially automatable. Multiarch might make it even easier, I don't know. What I'm looking for are recommendations on how to

upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread Morty
What would it take to automate an upgrade of Debian x86 to amd64? I know there is no currently-supported way to do this. What would it take to make one? Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image that can be automatically upgraded to amd64 as

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
Your best bet is to capture the pertinent files in /etc and /home from 32bit of course, any databases etc. should also be preserved and log files stored if they need to be held for legal reasons etc. then copy them in to their new homes in a fresh 64bit install ive moved my ~dean around from

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Morty wrote: Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image that can be automatically upgraded to amd64 as needed. Shops with existing x86 systems that want to upgrade to amd64 hardware can copy the existing