Is it possible to migrate armv7 to 8?

[loki279]

Hello,

I'm running a nextcloud on a RP3 and would like to update the hardware to a RP4. Is there a way to migrate the system to armv8 (aarch64)? It would be nice not having to start from scratch with the new setup.

Thanks and best regards!

[graysky]

Possible? Yes. Probably less work to start from a fresh image and just setup package/copy over your configs and user files though. Unless you need 64-bit kernel and userland, the official RPi4 image is not 64-bit, it is armv7h. You can switch out kernel packages and just boot the existing uSD card on the RPi4.

[loki279]

Thanks, probably the way to go..!