On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, michael wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2008, at 02:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: >>> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, >>> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps >>> that were installed and hopefully all the conf files in /home/user >>> will >>> be compatible with the arch change of kde and other apps? (of course >>> I >>> am only talking about if you have /home and a separate partition) >> >> Only formatting / will only work if you don't have a separte /usr or >> /var... >> >> I run amd64 Etch and have an i386 chroot for iceweasel with flash. >> Prior to that I had i386 Sarge on a different box. The configs in / >> home >> worked just fine. I always migrate /etc by hand when I do a new >> install. >> > > I presume you have iceweasel in an i386 chroot since there's no working > flash for the 64 bit? This is something I am thinking of doing. I am > starting from amd64 Etch (no other Debian on the system). Do I really > need to install a full i386 Etch as implied by the Debian manual > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot > or is there a quicker/shorter way (that wastes less disk space)?
when I migrated to amd64, I did nothing special for flash, and it seems to just work... (Now I'm thinking I need to go check). In theory, in sid, you use nsplugin-wrapper to allow 32bit flash to run on 64bit systems. A
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