Kubuntu - AMD 64 bit installation newbness

[Matthew Flaschen]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 6:44 pm, Donn wrote:
>> about cost, so that helped. Anyway, the thing: It's an AMD Athlon 64bit
>> CPU (X2) and I have no idea how to .. well anything with 64 bit.
> 
> For an X2, you want an SMP-enabled kernel.  I'm not sure what Ubuntu calls 
> these things.

In Dapper:

linux-image-686.

All you have to do is:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-686

then reboot.  I think this is somehow obsoleted in future versions, but
it should still work, even if it may not really install an SMP kernel.

Matthew Flaschen


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