[xubuntu-users] Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Fri Jun 30 19:09:55 UTC 2017
On 06/30/2017 07:52 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
[snip]
>> Or do I have to do a from-scratch installation (not a major
>> problem, as /home is on a separate partition, and most all the
>> important stuff is on SVN repos).
>
> You would be better off reinstalling your system using a 64bit distro.
I did exactly that. As I keep a separate backup of additional
non-standard stuff, it worked just fine.
For the record: Recommended:
1. If you can, create a /home partition, or install a second drive
and make it /home (or whatever structure you want for the place
where you keep *your* stuff).
2. If you have non-standard stuff you have added, *always* keep it
somewhere like /usr/local/src and back that up separately (eg
to USB), or rsync it to some place else.
I also keep things like the installation tar.gz files of the
small amount of commercial software that I have bought in that
directory too, so I can reinstall it from there if I need to.
3. I have a bunch of shared stuff that I use on lots of systems,
mainly my Emacs add-ons and my DTD/Schema collection, both of
which have standard locations in /usr/local, so they are in
SVN repos on my server, so I can add them back to any newly-
installed system without difficulty.
> There has been talk about a successful upgrade from a 32bit core to
> a 64bit one. Yet that procedure is not fail-proof and might require
> you to compile your own kernel.
I'll pass on that, thanks :-)
> You be better off backing up any critical files you have (docs,
> scripts, config files) and reinstalling a 64bit distro.
Works fine. Better, in fact, as the ltXML2 utilities were giving me
problems compiling them under the 32bit distro, but under 64bit they
compiled and installed without a glitch. Some C++ weirdness.
///Peter
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