Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

From	Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel
Date	2020-12-05 02:50 +0100
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Darac wrote:
>On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot
>> of the pain:
>>
>>   https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader
>>
>> but it's definitely not something I'd recommend for a novice yet...
>
>Wow that's a really nice tool. I am somewhat boggling, though, at the
>idea in the Instructions[1] of crossgrading from arm64 to amd64. What
>manner of machine can interpret both of those instruction sets?!

None, but that doesn't mean it's not useful. The very installation I'm
typing this on has been cross-graded by hand twice over the years,
going i386->amd64->arm64. It's moved hardware multiple times since I
first set it up back in 1996, and switching architeectures is just
another step! :-)

I'm a highly experienced Debian developer and it still took me a few
false starts and I had to step back and fix mistakes when doing the
crossgrade. But I still found it a useful thing to do, and now I'm
running an arm64 machine at home as my NFS server/firewall/router.

But nonetheless we expect most people to be using the crossgrade tool
to just upgrade older i386 installations to use amd64 now...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

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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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