--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
Subject: Re: 64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
<fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 8:37 PM
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
reinstall