[TriLUG] Clean Ubuntu upgrade procedure?

[Lee Fickenscher]

Though it doesn't answer your actual question, I suggest you take a look at
this before you go through the effort:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit#Memory

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Unfortunately, when I switched from Mandriva to Ubuntu 9.04 in July 2009, I
> installed 32bit Ubuntu and so limped along with 4GB instead of my hardware
> 8GB
> installed RAM. Ubuntu Upgrade Manager gives me the choice to upgrade in
> place,
> but AFAIK I can't switch to 64 bit if I use that, so I'll need to wipe the
> system and fresh-install 64bit 9.10.
>