<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Thank you, this makes more sense to me now. I ran "uname -a" and it does have the i686 kernel installed. So now I'm still trying to figure out what else I can do to speed things up. I'm willing/able to add more RAM, but would like to see if there are any other improvements I can make first. I read that problems can be caused if you don't wipe clean your hard drive before installing Linux. When I installed Xubuntu 7.10, I chose the option that said it would partition everything and wipe out whatever was already on there. Maybe I should have wiped it clean first, and then installed it? If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them. I'm running a laptop w/ 646 Mhz Celeron, 6G HDD, 192 MB RAM. Thank you to everyone on the list for your patience with my emails! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:07:57PM -0800: > I wasn't sure if that meant it's repaired or not, so I again tried "apt-get > install linux-686" and received messages about it not being able to write to > files. So I ran "mount / -o rw, remount" and the apt-get again, and it > displayed a few lines, at the end of which it said "E: Couldn't find package > linux-686" I Googled and found "aptitude install linux-686" and ran that; it > seemed to do more stuff, but still couldn't find the package. > > So I guess the good news is that my system seems to be repaired/working and > now I just have to figure out how to get the 686 kernel (assuming that will > help my slow performance). The 686 (and all other kernels) are now merged to a single kernel called linux-image-generic, so there are only two kernels, -386 and -generic for the desktop. The -generic kernel will enable all optimisations needed when it detects a processor that can use them. -- Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski <<a href="http://sheep.art.pl" target="_blank"> http://sheep.art.pl</a>> ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  <<a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a>> - against proprietary attachments ------------------------------ -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> End of xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 16 ********************************************* </blockquote></div>