Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old >> 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on >> the easiest and most error-free way to do that. > > Hello Robert, > > I see you already have the new system installed. Not very helpful for > now, but for your next migration it might be easier if you first copy > over passwd, group, shadow... and then install the server packages (the > ones that create users in the 101-999 range). This way you would be able > to copy most (all?) data files over without worrying about UID mismatch. > > Regards, > Andrei
Hi, this is a question I was going to ask in few weeks as I planned to learn how I can migrate from 32 to 64 bit debian distro. It looks like it's not possible to just upgrade i.e. replacing the sources in apt/source.list? Is it really that hard to switch from 32 to 64? Is it not possible to replace the sources and i.e. dpkg --reinstall install <package>? thanks for the discussion regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
