On Friday, 9 June 2017 4:42:49 PM AEST cory seligman via luv-main wrote:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/dell/dell-inspiron-11-> > 3000-11-6-laptop/329999/
That's a nice little laptop.
yes. I didn't manage to get my older 32bit ubuntu booting on it, but I gave up and installed xubuntu-16.04 64 bit.
runs very nicely, everything appears to work fine.
It's very strange that you couldn't get 32bit Ubuntu booting. Were you trying to transfer an image or do a fresh install and then copy the configuration? The web page says that it uses eMMC not regular storage so the mapping to something the BIOS recognises may be a little different to what regular disks use and that might preclude an image copy. Also as an aside a 64bit kernel will work in all ways with 32bit userspace, I do this all the time in Debian and Ubuntu should work just as well. So if you wanted your old 32bit configuration but couldn't get the kernel/bootloader going you could just copy the 32bit userspace on to another partition and configure GRUB to boot that with the 64bit kernel, you just need to copy the 64bit modules from /lib/modules to the partition used for 32bit. As an aside on my KVM servers I have a script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ that uses rsync to copy /lib/modules to every VM, including the ones with 32bit userspace. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/