Hey, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 ian 13, 09:00:21, Sam Martin wrote: > Just go choose the "Manual Partitioning" if you don't trust the > installer. > > > Is the best way of doing this to unplug the drives on raid vol and > > reinstall 64bit dist?
If you want to be absolutely sure, just do this. You can still have fat fingers in the ‘Manual Partitioning’ :) > I'm just starting with software RAID myself, but as far as I can tell it > should just work. Make sure to actually install mdadm on the 64bit system, as it is not necessarily pulled in from what I can tell. You might then want to configure the drives in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf (have a look at your current one), but you shouldn’t encounter any serious problems. > > Also, will all my /etc/configs work ok with their 64bit counterparts? > > Since configurations files are just text it doesn't matter. Don’t blindly copy everything from your old /etc to the new one, but there is no harm in copying select directories (you mentioned samba, ftp etc.). After all, some files in /etc are not ‘just text’ or at least architecture-dependant (e.g. ld.so.cache). > One other possibility would be to experiment with a cross-grade. While possible (I did it myself a few years back), I wouldn’t suggest trying if you a) are worried about your data, b) possibly don’t have a good backup or c) are new to Linux, as so much can go wrong (missing libc is _fun_). It might be easier with multi-arch nowadays, but reinstallation should still be the easiest way. Best, Claudius -- Please don’t CC me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130123081525.19304...@ares.home.chubig.net
