1- I D/L a distribution
2- because I have no RW DVDs I burn the CD version
3- I install the CD version
4- After running the the install there is an ICON that says 'upgrade to the
DVD' so I upgrade
5- my system starts to panic when running off of the battery so it is
wisely suggested to upgrade my
Michael,
Linux is nothing if not a chatty beast ;-)
To find out everything you every wanted to know about your CPU, you can
look at /proc/cpuinfo.
My system I am on right now is a System76 Lemur, and it runs a I3
mobile. If I look in that file, I will see:
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
model
Thanks Kevin. I see in my cpuinfo flags that I support long mode too. But
why, when I tried to install that in the kernel, did it complain until I
put in the 32 bit version?
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kevin Fries ke...@fries-biro.com wrote:
Michael,
Linux is nothing if not a chatty
Just because you are running a 64bit machine, that does not mean you are
running a 32bit OS. The version of Ubuntu you installed was probably 32
bit. You can install a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine, just not the
reverse.
HTH
Kevin
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 13:28 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
hmm. interesting!
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Kevin Fries ke...@fries-biro.com wrote:
Just because you are running a 64bit machine, that does not mean you are
running a 32bit OS. The version of Ubuntu you installed was probably 32
bit. You can install a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit
