Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (301 mails)

[Kim Leyendecker <leyendecker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10.02.2012 00:24, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
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> On 02/09/12 at 10:54pm, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Koushik Kumar Nundy <kknundy@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > On 7 February 2012 02:26, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > If I don't reply to mails in the next hours - I'm attempting an in-place
> > > > upgrade of my 32-bit system to 64. Just to see if Zypper et all. like me
> > > > :D
> > > Please document the process. I would like to do something like that on my
> > > Li-f-e box too.
> > My advice: don't.
> >
> > Ok, I managed, but only with an openSUSE DVD and quite a few hours of
> > un-breaking my system ;-)
> >
> > The idea is that you first do the kernel, than reboot, do
> > zypper/rpm/etc and the rest. But after doing the kernel it missed the
> > modules to mount my root so game over there...
> Interesting, I have done it many times with no side effects as yet. I
> start with editing /etc/zypp/zypp.conf where it describes the
> architecture which is normally autodetected there I put x86_64 then run
> zypper ref followed by zypper dup and finaly reboot with 64.
>
> Togan

Do you think this also works from x86_64 to i586?

thanks,
                --kdl
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