[arch-general] Converting to 64

[Guillaume ALAUX]

Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't
*convert*anything but
*reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off
installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download
64bits packages.

Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and
keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition.

On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500
> "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you have to reinstall
> >
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan
> > <lists at itech7.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS
> > > (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch
> > > which is turn off I think.
> > > How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nilesh Govindarajan
> > > Facebook: nilesh.gr
> > > Twitter: nileshgr
> > > Website: www.itech7.com
> > >
>
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_Reinstalling
>