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> I switched to Arch right after the systemd transition, so I'm sure I missed a big opportunity for breakage. I've had a server running for several years on A
by discreditable 9y ago
> I switched to Arch right after the systemd transition, so I'm sure I missed a big opportunity for breakage.
I've had a server running for several years on Arch. The systemd transition wasn't bad. I didn't have any custom init scripts to migrate, so it was mostly update & reboot. Arch is a great install once and update forever system. I even migrated my install in-place from x86 to amd64 after upgrading the CPU. There's a wiki article for it! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_architectures https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_archi...
- sevensor 9y ago> I even migrated my install in-place from x86 to amd64 after upgrading the CPU My hat is off to you -- I would have guessed that wasn't possible!
- bartkmq 9y agoI guess that's the magic of the Arch Wiki¹. Even if not using Arch I often find it far more useful and up-to-date than the wiki of my own distributions (Ubuntu and Manjaro). [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_architectures https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_archi...
- earenndil 9y agoI know what you mean. Hell, I've even used arch wiki for freebsd!
- stevekemp 9y agoI've done that a couple of times over the years, on Debian systems. Largely as a result of moving from UML->KVM. This is roughly the guide I followed, which has existed for a good few years. https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit
- tanderson92 9y agoOn a multiarch distro, like Exherbo or Debian, you can switch architectures by cross compiling for the target arch. On Exherbo, after cross compiling, one only needs to change the /usr/host symlink and reboot.