Upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora Linux without a system reinstall

Upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora Linux without a system reinstall

One great thing about Linux is that you can transplant a hard disk from a machine that runs a 32-bit AMD XP processor into a new 64-bit Intel Core 2 machine, and the Linux installation will continue to work. However, if you do this, you'll be running a 32-bit kernel, a C library, and a complete system install on a processor that could happily run 64-bit code. You'll waste even more resources if ...
Published: 1/11/2008 4:27:41 AM
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