Slackware 14.1 beta

Posted Sep 23, 2013 14:27 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Slackware 14.1 beta by busterb
Parent article: Slackware 14.1 beta

> Has anyone ever tried upgrading a 32-bit Debian install to 64-bit? I'd be interested to see if it can be pulled off, but I imagine at the least that dpkg would be upset.

Using multi-arch, it can be done: <http://www.ewan.cc/?q=node/90>

Slackware 14.1 beta

Posted Sep 24, 2013 20:40 UTC (Tue) by busterb (guest, #560) [Link]

An 8-year old copy of Debian to 64-bit using nothing but the standard tools and packages, leaving everything other than the C library alone? Sure you could also chroot or carefully replace binaries by hand, but this has worked much longer with Slackware with the standard packages.

I'm not saying Debian multi-arch isn't good, and I love how easily it makes running stuff like ARM binaries on x86 for example. But its not the same thing as being able to migrate an old OS in one step. https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch