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sultanoswing

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Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 314

Hardware upgrade & installing 64-bit Arch

I've just upgraded to core i5-750 and an  ASUS P7P55 LGA 1156 motherboard.

Since I've also now got 4GB of RAM I figure it's time to go from 32-bit Arch to 64-bit.

In order to make the transition as painless as possible I'd like to keep my "/home" partition, with all its user settings and data, on my 320GB drive, and install the fresh 64-bit OS onto the "/" partition on the same drive - formatting that partition, obviously.

Any particular fish hooks i should be aware of with this approach

Thanks

Last edited by sultanoswing (2010-06-27 09:30:49)

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6.5.3.arch1-1(x86_64) w/Gnome 44.4
Arch on: ASUS Pro-PRIME x470, AMD 5800X3D, AMD 6800XT, 32GB, | Intel NUC 7i5RYK | ASUS ux303ua | Surface Laptop

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Hardware upgrade & installing 64-bit Arch

No, that's a very common install approach, both for upgraders like yourself and for users who are migrating from another distro. Follow the documentation and you will be fine.

sultanoswing

Member

Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 314

Re: Hardware upgrade & installing 64-bit Arch

Went perfectly. New hardware is great too. Too bad about flash 64-bit, though!

Who needs migration assistants when you've got a separate /home

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6.5.3.arch1-1(x86_64) w/Gnome 44.4
Arch on: ASUS Pro-PRIME x470, AMD 5800X3D, AMD 6800XT, 32GB, | Intel NUC 7i5RYK | ASUS ux303ua | Surface Laptop