Older pc compatibility question

[Rashkae]

Pastor JW wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 

You should be able to get the latest and greatest desktop (Jaunty /
karmic?) without any trouble.  the memory is the most limiting item of
the hardware, but will still be sufficient for a generic desktop.  It
will run into trouble if you try running more than 1 or 2 large
applications at the same time.  Fortunately, the DDR memory that the
Althlon XP probably wants is *really* cheap and now would be the perfect
time to update this system to 2gb of ran for about $30 US that would
extend the life of the system for years to come.