Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2010-02-08 00:26, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:45:22 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
>
> > > Has anybody done this, an upgrade from 32 to 64 bits? Does it work?
> > > Is it "supported"?
> >
> > I guess it is not officially supported, but If you know what you are
> > doing, you could probabyly make it work.
> >
> > The problem is, IIUC, that you need a system that's halfway consistent
> > and capable of running binaries throughout the update. As soon as an
> > important (to the rest of the update process) binary is updated to 64
> > bit, you are screwed.

...

> > After that, it might work. Keep us posted on your success.
> > I might actually try this in a virtual machine one day, sounds
> > interesting ;)

I'd be interested in knowing if it "should" work before I attempt it, instead 
of being the guinea
pig. Hopefully from the devs that designed the upgrade process ;-)


> It should work without any special preparations if you boot "from
> outside" to do the update 32 -> 64.

Did I say that it is the retail DVD? Yes, the update runs from the DVD live 
system on a "dead", aka
stopped, system, so that is not an issue. I'm not doing a "zypper dup" 
procedure, that definitely
would not work (IMO).


You see, it has been told here, for years, that this upgrade (32-->64) is 
impossible. But the dvd
message box doesn't say that... :-? So I thought it might work now.


In fact, the retail 11.2 DVD only contains the x64 version, that's why I 
discovered this. :-o

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))
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