On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Linuxguy123 wrote:
sorry - reinstall is your only option
Reinstall the kernel or the whole "OS" including the applications ?
How do I "reinstall" and get the exact same set of applications that I currently have and keep all my user data ?
I was hoping that I could change a setting from i386 to x86_64 and some magic would occur whereby everything got replaced. Even if I had to write a yum script to do it ?
Well, what you could do would be to reinstall, but don't reformat. At least that way you'd keep all your "user" data. That's typically what I do, since I have a separate partition for /home.