On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > 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 > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no Thanks, gentlemen. Mostly, my post was just a pondering; wondering if it might be better to re-do stuff now, But then my new server still isn't finished and probably won't be until next week. So best to stick with what I'm familar with. gary -- Gary Kline kline_at_thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.phpReceived on Fri Nov 27 2009 - 20:55:37 UTC
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