[plug] Looking for assistance with a recent Debian upgrade

[Joe Aquilina]

Will be doing my backups first, starting straight after everyone else 
goes home early for their Christmas break at about lunchtime. I found 
that crossgrading page late yesterday - printed it ready for the weekend.

Planning on upgrading the kernel first and making sure that it boots and 
runs ok with a newer kernel first before I attempt the crossgrade.

We are effectively closed until January 6 so I have plenty of time to 
get this done before everyone else returns to work (I am only taking the 
few days between Christmas and New Year).

Cheers.

Joe Aquilina

On 19/12/19 11:38 pm, Brad Campbell wrote:
> On 18/12/19 1:13 pm, Joe Aquilina wrote:
>
>> I have been reluctant to jump to amd64 on this system because it is a 
>> rather complicated setup, which I am not confident that I could 
>> recreate from scratch if the worst happened. But as you say, perhaps 
>> it is time to do it anyway.
>>
>
> I've run i386 distributions on x64 kernels for years.
>
> Last week I crossgraded a Devuan ASCII (So Debian Stretch) install 
> from i386 to x64 relatively painlessly. Anything post Wheezy can be 
> done with the instructions here : https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
>
> That machine had been running an i386 distribution on an x64 kernel 
> for probably 10 years before I got around to upgrading the userspace. 
> It's co-located on the other side of the globe, so there were 
> precautionary backups and much arse clenching during the process, but 
> it all went cleanly. I'm sure had I not had comprehensive backups it 
> wouldn't have been anywhere near as smooth however.
>
>

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