On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:47:56PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > Interesting... If one has 32-bit installed, is there some sort of > upgrade / overwrite to the 64-bit version?
At present, i386 and amd64 are basically completely separate architectures. This means you'll need to install amd64 from scratch, either dual-booting with or overwriting your existing i386 installation. In the future, with multiarch, things might get a bit more flexible. Since I built a new system (Core2 quad) which is a amd64 chip, there really wasn't any benefit to not using a 64 bit operating system, so I just installed amd64 Lenny on it. If you really need to run 32 bit programs, you can install compatibility libraries or run a virtual 32bit i386 system in a chroot (check out my schroot package for an easy way to do that). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
