On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:23:41PM +0100, tmp@nitwit.de wrote:
Hi!
Did somebody successfully upgraded an running 32bit system to 64bit? If so, what's the smartest way to do this?
You can just upgrade the kernel. If it's a 2.6 kernel with a 2.6 distribution, on 2.4 there were some hacks needed with modutils for this. A 32bit distribution works reasonably well under a 64bit kernel. One trap is that you need a 64bit iptables too if you want a working firewall (or use ipchains) Upgrading user land this way is probably not a good idea. If you want this I would rather install it into a new partition. They can run both in chroot under a 64bit kernel. However this is all not supported/tested by SUSE at all, so you're on your own. The easiest and safest way is to just reinstall. -Andi