Is there any easy way to upgrade a 11.0 install from 32-bit to 64-bit? My machine is capable of supporting the
cpu from what I have seen, and now I have an application that will really benefit from 64-bit. Is there some way I can do an inline upgrade via yast or something else, or even by upgrading over a 32-bit install with the 64-bit DVD? I am just hoping to not have to re-install everything on the machine…
Here is my /proc/cpuinfo output…
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1596.037
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 3191.98
clflush size : 64
The real benefits of _64 are seen if you have more than 4GB RAM, though a lower spec will still see advantage with processes like video encoding.
Perhaps with 11.1 just around the corner you would like to wait and do your upgrade then. Well it will mean re-install, but keeping /home as is will be fine.
You should be aware that there are issues with Flash and Java in _64. Though I use _64 without trouble, well Flash no problem, some Java issues but mostly ok.
Thanks, I was worried about that. I might just wait until 11.1 comes out then and rebuild. The main reason I need 64 is that I am running this small atom pc as file/media server and I am running ZFS/Fuse on it. there are several places where there are 64-bit ops low in that code and you pay a pretty big penalty running it in 32. Now we just need to figure out the legal stuff and get ZFS installed as a kernel level filesystem so I can get rid of fuse…