[arch-general] Converting to 64

[Hilton Medeiros]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:50 +0200
Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume at alaux.net> wrote:

> 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
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> > > >
> >
> >
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_Reinstalling
> >

Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to
magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are
just joking. ;)