I am planning to buy AMD64 based PC within a week.
Can I install linux on it using my ubuntu 5.04 CD (386 port) instead of AMD64 port version? I want to do this because of following-
* AMD64 port may be unstable & may not have drivers for all hardware. * I want to immediately start working & a less than potential speed is acceptable.
My new PC configuration is AMD64-3000,MSI RS480M2 motherboard with ATi chipset, 1GB RAM,80 GB SATA HDD.
Regards,
Nilesh Raykar
On Friday 23 September 2005 14:31, raykar@hathway.com wrote:
I am planning to buy AMD64 based PC within a week.
Can I install linux on it using my ubuntu 5.04 CD (386 port) instead of AMD64 port version? I want to do this because of following-
- AMD64 port may be unstable & may not have drivers for all hardware.
- I want to immediately start working & a less than potential speed
is acceptable.
My new PC configuration is AMD64-3000,MSI RS480M2 motherboard with ATi chipset, 1GB RAM,80 GB SATA HDD.
Yep. There is no problem! AMD64 runs 32bit programs very efficiently. Though, you will be suffering a _tiny_ performance loss while running the 32bit port instead of 64bit. But thats the trade off you need to make inorder to get stability.
BTW you have a nice system but I would really recommend 120GB of HDD. 80GB seems too small now-a-days :P
On 9/27/05, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 23 September 2005 14:31, raykar@hathway.com wrote:
I am planning to buy AMD64 based PC within a week.
Can I install linux on it using my ubuntu 5.04 CD (386 port) instead of AMD64 port version? I want to do this because of following-
- AMD64 port may be unstable & may not have drivers for all hardware.
- I want to immediately start working & a less than potential speed
is acceptable.
My new PC configuration is AMD64-3000,MSI RS480M2 motherboard with ATi chipset, 1GB RAM,80 GB SATA HDD.
Yep. There is no problem! AMD64 runs 32bit programs very efficiently. Though, you will be suffering a _tiny_ performance loss while running the 32bit port instead of 64bit. But thats the trade off you need to make inorder to get stability.
BTW you have a nice system but I would really recommend 120GB of HDD. 80GB seems too small now-a-days :P
-- Dinesh A. Joshi
I am using Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 on an AMD64 and I find it to be the most stable OS I have used. This is because Ubuntu is Debian based and follows the trend of using stable kernel versions and software under any conditions. There is no way it can be unstable. And the package support for Ubuntu is too good. APT gets you everything you need. Synaptic is nice too. Frankly speaking, other than the Flash plugin, everything works great on Ubuntu Hoary for AMD64. If you like KDE, check out kUbuntu. I highly recommend you to install the AMD64 version. Use your hardware to the fullest of its capability! -- Regards, Sanket Medhi, sanketmedhi@gmail.com
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