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Hello,

Am Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:39:12 +0100
schrieb Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it>:
> I have an i386 small server that I whish to upgrade to amd64
> (upgrading the hardware too:) without destroying user files and
> configurations. Is that possible?
For my upgrade from i386 to amd64 (some years ago) I did follow the
steps described in
	/usr/src/UPDATING 
in the section
	"To cross-install current onto a separate partition"
with the additional arguments 
	TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64
for the make-commands.
The first step in the new system was a native rebuild to be sure that
all is good.

regards

Thomas
-- 
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