Upgrade from Fedora Core 6 686 to 64bit Remotely
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Tue Jun 26 13:37:15 UTC 2007
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:13:40PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to the 64 bit world. I have installed Fedora Core 6 on a Dell
> 1435 with two Dual Core AMD Opeterons. I was not thinking at the time
> and just used the Fedora Core 6 DVD that I had laying around. This just
> happens to be the 32 bit version.
>
> The server is in a CoLo quite a distance from where I am and I am hoping
> there is a way I can upgrade the OS to 64 bit without having to go there
> and pop in a DVD.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I have searched google with no results, maybe I
> just don't have the correct search terms, or it is not possible.
AFAIK an upgrade is not possible. You might get away with a well-crafted
kickstart config file, but you'll have to overwrite the current root
partition anyway.
Regards,
R.
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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
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