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Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

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> I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian
> release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit
> version for intel on the system. 
> Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after
> loading the 64bit version or can I in someway just load the the OS over
> the i386 OS and retain the $HOME contents?????

FWIW, I recently needed to run a amd64 binary on my i386 system.
Rather than make a full install I just added the few needed amd64 packages.

I.e. something like

    dpkg --add-architecture amd64
    apt update
    apt install linux-image-amd64 libc6:amd64

You do need to run an amd64 kernel if you want to run amd64 binaries (so
you'll need to reboot after installing the amd64 kernel) but that kernel
will happily run the i386 binaries as well, so you can simply replace
your 686 kernels with the amd64 kernel and keep using your existing
system (and I'd strongly recommend to use an amd64 kernel in any case if
you have more than 4GB of RAM).


        Stefan

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i386 debian to 64bit intel Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2020-12-03 23:40 +0100
  Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2020-12-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 03:10 +0100
    Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-12-04 03:20 +0100
      Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 11:50 +0100
        Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-12-04 12:30 +0100
          Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2020-12-04 17:20 +0100
            Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 21:10 +0100
            Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-12-05 02:50 +0100
  Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-12-04 04:20 +0100
    Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 11:50 +0100
    Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-12-04 16:00 +0100
  Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-04 06:20 +0100
    Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-06 09:00 +0100
  Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-04 16:30 +0100
    Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-04 17:30 +0100
      Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-04 18:10 +0100

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