64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, John Aldrich <john at chattanooga.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > ----
> > > sorry - reinstall is your only option
> >
> > Reinstall the kernel or the whole "OS" including the applications ?
> >
> > How do I "reinstall" and get the exact same set of applications that I
> > currently have and keep all my user data ?
> >
> > I was hoping that I could change a setting from i386 to x86_64 and some
> > magic would occur whereby everything got replaced.  Even if I had to
> > write a yum script to do it ?
> >
> Well, what you could do would be to reinstall, but don't reformat. At least
> that way you'd keep all your "user" data. That's typically what I do, since
> I
> have a separate partition for /home.
>

I wonder what would happen if you did an "Upgrade" from F8 32-bit to F8
x86_64? Theoretically wouldn't it try and keep all the same packages
installed but just replace them with their 64bit counterpart?

Richard
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