As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a 32-bit one. I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs in their 32-bit form On Jan 25, 2011 10:00 PM, "Ken D'Ambrosio" <k...@jots.org> wrote: > Hey, all. I've got a big ol' RAID box that I use to store... well, pretty > much everything. Threw 64-bit Ubuntu on it, 'cause, well, why not? > > I now know why not. > > I'm afraid I've fallen into the portable device rage, e.g., my Droid-X. > Nifty thing, it is -- even set it up with VPN, SIP through my job, and all > sorts of other fun stuff. Now I'd like to play video from my server on > the phone. Unfortunately, its media player is pretty useless -- far > better to generate video from the server, and stream it, apparently. But! > 64-bit CODECs are also kinda lousy. And it's not like I have a oodles of > RAM -- 2 GB -- so dropping to a 32-bit system won't really harm anything. > > But Googling that doesn't really help much. Any suggestions? What I'd > *love* to do is an "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade", and be done with > it. Somehow, though, I'm thinking it won't be that simple. I'd really > like to avoid a full re-install -- a lot of configuration has gone into > this silly thing, and, while I could backup /etc and pray that was enough, > I'd prefer not to find out the hard way. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > -Ken > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
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