Dsoslglece
November 27th, 2012, 10:32 AM
Hi,
I've installed Ubuntu on an old PC to replace XP on it (at the moment both are on it).
And, to do so, I used the Wubi installer.
everything seems OK, except the OS being rather slow to react.
Using often Ubuntu on my iMac (parallels desktop), I know that it is normally just as efficient and swift as Mountain Lion, and so (even if this could be caused by the rather restraint RAM of this machine), I investigated a bit and it appears that (from Ubuntu desktop) it is Ubuntu 64 bits.
I'm rather surprised by this, since I thought the machine was a 32 bits.
In another hand, I couldn't find any indication of this from the XP side, but I must admit that not being such a fan of windows, I'm not really much accointed with the meanders of its guts, so I may have missed it.
Also, is it possible that the Wubi in downloading the system would have made a mistake?
And also, is it possible for Ubuntu 64 bits to work (even if a bit slowly) being installed on a 32 bits machine...
This could also explain the fact that in doing the updates yesterday, it reported a fault and lot of them (on a total of 200MB) was uncompleted.
Thanks in advance for any advice
I've installed Ubuntu on an old PC to replace XP on it (at the moment both are on it).
And, to do so, I used the Wubi installer.
everything seems OK, except the OS being rather slow to react.
Using often Ubuntu on my iMac (parallels desktop), I know that it is normally just as efficient and swift as Mountain Lion, and so (even if this could be caused by the rather restraint RAM of this machine), I investigated a bit and it appears that (from Ubuntu desktop) it is Ubuntu 64 bits.
I'm rather surprised by this, since I thought the machine was a 32 bits.
In another hand, I couldn't find any indication of this from the XP side, but I must admit that not being such a fan of windows, I'm not really much accointed with the meanders of its guts, so I may have missed it.
Also, is it possible that the Wubi in downloading the system would have made a mistake?
And also, is it possible for Ubuntu 64 bits to work (even if a bit slowly) being installed on a 32 bits machine...
This could also explain the fact that in doing the updates yesterday, it reported a fault and lot of them (on a total of 200MB) was uncompleted.
Thanks in advance for any advice