On Aug 11, 2013 at 03:25, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > hanging). As a result, I have purchased a new (old and refurbished) > machine. The difference is that this one has an x86-64 whereas the old one > is 32-bit. > > Ideally, I'd like to move the HD from the old one to the new one, boot, and > tell it to upgrade all the packages for the new architecture. Is it that > easy? Are there complications I need to watch out for? Is there anything I > should do to prepare before moving the disk (e.g. must I replace LILO with > grub)? > > --Greg > > > -- > 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/20130811002543.ga20...@anthropohedron.net >
Hello. I would do a debootstrap. After, * in chroot installed all packages from old env * copied configuration files/reconfigured by need * replaced x86 content by amd64 * installed grub from new environment -Ivan -- 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/20130811014945.ga20...@lefrat.org
