Older pc compatibility question

David N. Lombard dnl at speakeasy.net
Mon Oct 26 03:26:54 UTC 2009


mdovell at comcast.net wrote:
> I have a older pc that looks to have finally started to bite the dust (5 
> years old).
> 
> It has a 160 gig hard drive..512 of ram processor is a Athlon XP 3200+ / 
> 2.2 GHz
> 
> Well in trying to install ubuntu I get this
> "This kernal requires an x86-64 but only detected an i686..."
>
Looks like you just downloaded the 64-bit version.  Try the 32-bit version.

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David N. Lombard




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