On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123
<linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from
> raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only
> using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel.
>
> uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
> 04:30:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Sooner or later I want to upgrade to a 64 bit kernel and 8 GB of RAM.
> Other than this article, I can't find any information on the subject.
>
>
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123800
>
> I am looking to do the upgrade WITHOUT reinstalling Fedora. I've done
> enough re installations in the past to know that I don't want to go
> there.
>
> Has anyone done crossgraded from 32 to 64 bit ? What advice do you have
> to offer ?
Have you really done enough upgrades? I think not. If you did, you
would know that the best advice is to back up your files and perform a
clean install.
No, that is NOT the best choice. I've re installed clean more than 4x
and its a BIG pain setting things up again. I have a lot of software
installed and not all of it is a simple yum command, ie custom versions
of Eclipse, java, etc.
Just like we shouldn't be telling everyone to do a 'yum clean all' when
its not necessary, nor should we be telling people to reinstall.