migration to 64bit ?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

' =JeffH ' wrote:
> I've been reading through the various 64bit threads with interest. I'm on a 
> core2duo machine, presently running 32bit.
>
> My overall question is what are the (detailed) steps would one take to migrate 
> a system from, say, 32bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") to 64bit Hardy?
>
> My video card is nVidia, and it appears they have a 64bit linux driver. As 
> threads here have indicated, there is now 64bit support for Flash, Java, etc. 
> So those main items are apparently addressed.
>
> One item that hasn't really been discussed is virtual machines: I presently 
> use vmware v6 to run at least one guest OS (winXP), and sometimes linux VMs. 
> In looking at VMware's site, it seems that they've had 64bit support for a 
> while now, and one can run 32bit guest OS's on 64bit host OS's, so that 
> appears to be just a matter of downloading the x86_64 installer, yes?
>
> So, if one has a functional 32bit Hardy system, what are the machinations to 
> make it become 64bit?
>
> thanks,
>
> =JeffH

To my humble knowledge, save your personal data and fresh start, but 
wait for the experts opinion.

L.

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