best way to upgrade an FC6.i686 to F8.x86_64 - don't - fresh install instead.

[Timothy Murphy]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

> Upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora Linux without a system reinstall
> 
> It was written last month.  I think I will study what he did, and try it
> myself when I feel brave enough again (I've got to get off of FC6
> sometime soon).

As others have said, this is probably unwise.
But why do you want to do it, as a matter of interest?
In my experience there is very little if any advantage
in running x86_64 over i386.
I tried it on an AMD64 machine, and didn't notice any increase in speed.

Maybe if you are doing some hard number-crunching, it might make sense.

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