Older pc compatibility question

[Pastor JW]

On Sunday 25 October 2009 8:04:47 pm 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..."

You are trying to install 64 bit software is all which your machine is not 
accepting, you need to try the 32 bit install instead but I think you would 
be better off with the more current 8.04 (Hardy) LTS rather than the now non 
supported June 2006 version (dapper).  Your hardware should have no real 
problems with it, but I'd like more ram if it were me.  BTW- , a 64 system 
bit would like something more like 4 Gig of ram!


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