5 Mar
2015
5 Mar
'15
11:56 p.m.
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.