How do I upgrade from x86 to x64 without losing settings

http://askubuntu.com/questions/6176/how-do-i-upgrade-from-x86-to-x64-without-losing-settings 1) Backup your /etc and /home folders (I have /home as its own partition, you may need more folders if you have any custom folders… or /var/www if you have Apache, maybe backup databases if you had any). You may use for example fsarchiver. 2) Run dpkg –get-selections > installed-software to save the list … Read more