On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:19 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
So... what is the easiest way to convert my 32 bit installation to 64 bits ? Please don't tell me to reinstall because I just did that earlier this week to go from F9 back to F8.
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 ?
---- reinstall the Whole OS
you probably could just check out /root/anaconda-ks.cfg for a clue as to what packages to install. You could actually feed that kickstart script to the installer for a repeat with the 86_64 sources.
Craig