LegoAddict
January 7th, 2009, 08:54 PM
So in my laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 64 bits I have a / partition and a /home partition.
I have been having... issues... with the lack of 64 bit support in some apps (Boxee, Flash, etc. I can watch youtube videos with the Flash alpha but it's very very unreliable)
So I was wondering if the next time I upgraded or anything I could just install Ubuntu to my harddrive simply mounting the /home partition as /home and then installing a 32 bit Ubuntu on the / partition. Would my settings break? Would the apocalypse commence?
btw, my processor is an Intel Core2 Duo TI800, which supports both 32 and 64 bits. I'm dual booting with 32 bit Vista.
Another problem is that I have 4 GB of RAM. Would I still get the most out of a 32 bit OS? Would my performance suffer?
I have been having... issues... with the lack of 64 bit support in some apps (Boxee, Flash, etc. I can watch youtube videos with the Flash alpha but it's very very unreliable)
So I was wondering if the next time I upgraded or anything I could just install Ubuntu to my harddrive simply mounting the /home partition as /home and then installing a 32 bit Ubuntu on the / partition. Would my settings break? Would the apocalypse commence?
btw, my processor is an Intel Core2 Duo TI800, which supports both 32 and 64 bits. I'm dual booting with 32 bit Vista.
Another problem is that I have 4 GB of RAM. Would I still get the most out of a 32 bit OS? Would my performance suffer?