Hello, I hope I’ve selected the right forum, it was this or the boot/install/login one?
I installed oSUSE from the 32 bit LiveDVD.
Is there a way of replacing the 32 bit version with the 64 bit version other than backing up and doing a clean install? Are there any overlaps or does one completely displace the other more simply?
Many thanks.
Sorry, a further question - I probably shouldn’t bother backing up apps as they will have been compiled for 32 bit in many cases?
You have to do a reinstall.
In theory you can do a change of the repositories to the 64-bit ones and an online update but this is not officially supported.
You can of course keep your /home partition as is
But yes, a re-install is required. It should only take 15 mins for the actual install, the rest is setting up etc…
Thank you both very much. I get round to backing up and reinstalling soon.
Used
cp -r home/username/* /backup/destination
and then
cp -r home/username/.[a-zA-Z0-9]* /backup/destination
to copy the home folder including all the hidden files.
Off to install!
On 2010-10-16 14:06, ken yap wrote:
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> You have to do a reinstall.
>
> In theory you can do a change of the repositories to the 64-bit ones
> and an online update but this is not officially supported.
It is not supported, but it works. This system I’m writing at, I upgraded from 11.0-32b to 11.2-64b.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Why both commands? Does this make the destinations correct, all in correct order etc? Does not
cp -r home/username/* /backup/destination
copy hidden files?
No, but there is a way to do it with one command. Incidentally you will miss hidden files that start with . and the second letter is not alphanumeric, say #. But I can’t think of any files of that form at this moment. Anyway here’s the command:
cp -a /home/username/. /backup/destination
Thanks for the information regarding upgrade Carlos, and the handy tip Ken!
After the aforementioned backup I reinstalled from a Gnome 64 LiveCD, using the old partitions.