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Touffman

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Registered: 2008-04-07

Posts: 4

Migrating from Arch to Arch64

Hi everybody,

I've first tried ArchLinux on a P4HT, so with the 32bits version.
After some hardware problems, I've changed only MB+CPU+RAM, and I'm now working on a Athlon 64x2.

My question is : is there an easy way to migrate from Arch32 to Arch64 without a full system install ?

Thanks in advance for your helpfull answers.
And sorry for my poor english (I'm a damned froggy ... :$ )

Thomas

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Migrating from Arch to Arch64

The easiest way: backup your personal files and configs + reinstall.

Noneus

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From: Munich

Registered: 2006-09-26

Posts: 118

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Re: Migrating from Arch to Arch64

You could change all the i686 to x86_64 in the pacman.conf and do a

pacman.static -S `pacman.static -Q | cut -f 1 -d " "`

But I don't know if this would work. You're probably better off backing up and reinstalling.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Migrating from Arch to Arch64

You could change all the i686 to x86_64 in the pacman.conf and do a

pacman.static -S `pacman.static -Q | cut -f 1 -d " "`

But I don't know if this would work. You're probably better off backing up and reinstalling.

It might work, but chances are that you end up with a totally hosed system. Reinstall.

neowolf

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 105

Re: Migrating from Arch to Arch64

Agreed with the rest. There's just no sane way to switch your machine over to what is essentially a completely different architecture.

Touffman

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Registered: 2008-04-07

Posts: 4

Re: Migrating from Arch to Arch64

Thanks a lot for all your answers.

So I'll reinstall the complete system..

Bye
Thomas