Help with upgrade to 9.10

[Scoff]

Hey, I'm currently running on 9.04 32bit, and I want to know if there's a way to upgrade to 9.10 64bit.

That's 'bout it, thanks in advance :D

[lisati]

Is your /home directory on its own partition?

[dominiquec]

I don't believe you can switch from 32-bit to 64-bit via upgrade. You'll need to reinstall.

[Scoff]

Is your /home directory on its own partition?

Errr... how do i check that?

[whoop]

Errr... how do i check that?



cat /etc/fstab

[Scoff]

cat /etc/fstab



scoff@scoff-laptop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=3e48588e-9d99-4315-951f-3314d38ab302 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a5c53054-fdc7-43f2-be97-7176858fbf16 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[oldfred]

How much space do you have on your hard drive?

Further discussion on 32 to 64.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1448571&highlight=home

Moving /home.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors

If you have room it may be worthwhile to just add another 20GB partition for your 64 bit install and then after you have copied everything you want use the existing partition as a data partition.

[Scoff]

Thank you oldfred :D *goes and clicks solved*