[TriLUG] Clean Ubuntu upgrade procedure?

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Lee, that helps a lot. I've heard and encountered bad stuff with 64 bit 
throughout the years, and it's good to know most of it is fixed and I can 
proceed forward with confidence.

StevET

On Friday 20 November 2009 10:27:59 Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> 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.
>
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