My datacenter admins are retards :)

[irchs]

I ordered an AMD64 server from my datacenter, yet they have put the 32-bit version of Fedora Core on it. Is there a way of installing the 64-bit version via SSH, either by the CD's or via yum preferebly, over my 32-bit installation?!

Saves me having to trust my server with the admins again.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

Jan

[killaweegee]

I'm not sure on upgrading from 32bit version to 64bit version but your best bet would probably be to download the iso's for the 64bit version. It will much faster.

[irchs]

Well... I have the 4 ISO's, but there doesn't seems to be any way of doing it over SSH. All the methods seem to describe booting the kernel off of the CD. Since I don't have access to the physical machine, this is impossible...

Is there any install script or program on any of the CD's I can take advantage of?!

Thanks

Jan

[ewdi]

well you can do package upgrading manually, but it will be hell out of work, i would suggest you contact david from rack911, he helps a lot of people upgrade using SSH from redhat to centos, vice versa, he should be able to heklp you for like only $25 one time fee

[irchs]

I am quite happy to do a lot of work. It's just that I can't get yum to realise that I am on a 64-bit capable system.

What is the first step, getting a 64-bit kernel in, or fooling yum/rpm into thinking that my arch is x86_64?!

Thanks

Jan

[irchs]

Well, thankfully my DC are going to load FC2 64-bit, and I can do the upgrade to FC3 64-bit from there

yay, but, I am sure there are people out there who are not so lucky, there should be a way to do this

Thanks

Jan