Once upon a time, I bought a laptop running FC6.i386. It ran well enough at the time, but I wanted to unlock the 64 bit potential of my laptop, so, when the time came to upgrade, I did some research on yum upgrades and determined that there was a file buried in /etc that I could change which would effectively change my architecture from i386 to x86_64. This allowed me to upgrade directly to F9.x86_64.
OK, the upgrade didn't exactly go flawlessly, and I had to do a lot of updating by hand, but, in the end, I had converted from i386 to x86_64, where my laptop has been through further upgrades (F10, F11, F12, and now F14). Now, after putting a new motherboard in my home server (moving from an Athlon XP-2600+ to a Phenom 9450e Quad Core), I want to change the architecture of the home serve to 64 bit as well. Alas, the file I once changed, that allowed yum to do the right thing, no longer exists (it was obsoleted somewhere in the F8-F10 timeframe). What is the best way to change architecture while upgrading? Is it to just use the x86_64 F15 install DVD? preupgrade does not support this, and I can't seem to trick yum into installing *any* x86_64 RPMs on my currently i386 system.... Where is this piece of magic that yum uses to decide if the architecture is 32 bits or 64 bits???? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
