Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:40:22PM -0400, Igor wrote:
32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb
thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way
to migrate to a 64-bit environment.

reinstall (dpkg --get-selections , debconf-get-selections and general
backup of /etc /home /usr/local and so on might help).

You can also consider to reduce (from a live cd with
parted/gparted/qtparted) you existing i386 partition and use it as
chroot system (for flash, win32codecs for mplayer, and so on) inside the
amd64 system.

Linkname: The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO
URL:
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205

Linkname: DebianAMD64Faq - Debian Wiki
URL: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq

and so on.

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