Re: [bitfolk] New installs of 32-bit guests are deprecated

Hello, On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 05:51:31PM -0000, Ian Jeffray wrote: It's 32- or 64-bits depending on what you tell it to be. Yes, if you select a 64-bit bootloader it will not be able to boot a 32-bit kernel. As the article indicates there are multiple options, of which reinstallation is one. Why is it that you find this your only option? I would have thought that the simplest option for you would be the one where you install a 64-bit kernel, since that would most likely involve no reconfiguration of anything, except for the few steps necessary to install the kernel itself. Also, I must ask, if it would be very difficult to re-do all the configs, does this mean that you do not have backups of the configs? Assuming you do have backups of the configs of everything, application configuration don't tend to change very much between 32- and 64-bit installs. But maybe identifying what to install and going through setting its configuration is what you're talking about there. The "migration VPS" option gives you two weeks to do it. Again as the article out points out, you do have probably a couple of years to keep going with 32-bit guests, and even then we will find a way to keep booting them. It would just be prudent to find a way to switch before then. Note that everyone currently running Ubuntu has a much more pressing deadline: 18.04 LTS was the last Ubuntu release that will support 32-bit. There aren't any more upgrades for Ubuntu on 32-bit. By the time it comes around to 20.04 there will only be a 64-bit option when installing or upgrading to that. CentOS already made that choice, and yet more will follow. Debian will be slower but I'd give it 5 years to abandon i686. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting