On 6 March 2015 at 10:56, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Erik Christiansen writes:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/i... (Change "amd64" to "i386" if you insist.)
Not being game to assume that amd64 would work on my old motherboard [...]
Pfft, that's not hard to check. Either look up the SKU (from /proc/cpuinfo) on https://ark.intel.com, or just try to boot an x86-64 kernel. The kernel will immediately print "this hardware is crap" if it won't work.
Yeah, I'd been wondering about that too.. The last 32 bit mainstream Intel CPUs were the Pentium 4 range, from around 2004-2006, which is a ridiculously long time ago in computing terms. But then, Erik did mention the hard drives were 32 GB, which would date from even earlier than then. So he's operating on 10+ year old hardware? I'm actually surprised there's enough memory in the machine to run a modern desktop environment and web browser. A 2004 era machine probably only has between 0.1 and 0.5 GB of RAM. I think? Toby