Re: Root location

From	Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Root location
Date	2021-08-13 18:00 +0200
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Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:53:44PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
>> Gunnar Gervin wrote:
>> 
>> > (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can).
>> 
>> I am not sure if you can upgrade 32 to 64bit OS. AFAIK you reinstall
>
>This is called a "crossgrade" sometimes (a portmanteau of "cross" and
>"upgrade").  It is NOT supported.  However, some advanced people have
>done it.  There's a wiki page about it.
>
>I've never done it.  I've never even ATTEMPTED it.  I would not
>recommend it, particularly to a novice.
>
>If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a
>64-bit OS to begin with.

We finally now have a cross-grading tool in Debian:

  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader

written by Kevin Wu as a GSoC project last year. It has worked well
for me in testing!

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews

Thread

Root location Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-13 10:40 +0200
  Re: Root location deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-08-13 14:00 +0200
    Re: Root location Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-13 14:10 +0200
      Re: Root location Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-08-13 15:10 +0200
      Re: Root location Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-08-13 18:00 +0200
      Re: Root location Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-13 18:10 +0200
  Re: Root location Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-08-13 14:40 +0200
    Re: Root location Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-13 18:10 +0200
  Re: Root location Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-13 18:10 +0200
    Re: Root location Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-13 18:20 +0200
      Re: Root location "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-08-14 11:30 +0200

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