howto install Ubuntu on a 64bit server architecture which is non-amd

[Sundar Nagarajan]

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It's as simple as that. Don't use 64 bit build unless you really have a
> requirement for supporting 64 bit data sets.
> 
> Gilles.

64-bit is also useful (essential) to use more than 4GB RAM (quite common 
nowadays). You _CAN_ achieve this with a 32-bit kernel, but it's 
probably more efficient to use a 64-bit kernel (means a 64-bit distro).