How to change to 64-bit.

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

>On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:00:58AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 
>[...] 
>> What am I missing? A repository? A package? This is a first time for me, 
>> so I'm completely clueless, and the 
>> only advice I can see is about installing fresh, which I'd really rather not 
>> do. 
> 
>Kevin, 
> 
>To move from 32- to 64-bit you'll need to do a fresh install using a 
>64-bit iso. 
> 
>-- 
>Scott Stevenson <scott at ecubyx.com> 


If you haven't already kept /home on a separate partition, you should in the future; it will make life easier. 


In any case, back up /home and restore later, it will allow you to keep your config files. 


You might also want to run 


$dpkg -l > ~/installed 


to save the list of installed packages to a file called "installed" and then refer to that that as you install any non-default packages you may have installed on your 32-bit machine. 


Good luck, 
Paul 
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