Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:01 +0100
Roland Smith <rsmith_at_xs4all.nl> writes:
> It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0 on the same
> architecture is not that hard IMHO. Upgrading from i386 to amd64 on the same
> release is doable but tricky; you need a spare root partition to install the
> amd64 binaries.

Not at all, just make a backup of /etc, extract the amd64 dist on top of
your existing system, then restore whichever parts of /etc got clobbered.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Fri Nov 27 2009 - 19:22:03 UTC

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