Raditude
April 5th, 2010, 12:56 AM
Last night, I was playing with Ubuntu 9.10, trying to install a theme, and tried to downgrade Gnome Display Manager from 2.28 to 2.20, so I could theme the login screen. After more messing with it, I completely bricked my laptop.
I decided to try to reinstall from my CD. I popped it in, and it got halfway through the install, when it said it couldn't read from the disc. I pulled it out, and there's a really deep scratch in it. I don't have the original ISO, so I have to redownload it.
My computer is capable of running 64bit operating systems. What I want to know is, will any programs cease to work if I upgrade to the 64bit version of Ubuntu.
I currently have it setup with 4 partitions 1 and 2 were the original system partitions that came with the computer, to restore Windows. 3 and 4 are ones I created for Ubuntu.
Partition 3 has the Ubuntu Root files, and 4 has my Home files.
I run VirtualBox with Windows XP as a guest inside Ubuntu. The guest disk is saved on my Home Partition. Everything else is standard or comes from Package Managers.
I decided to try to reinstall from my CD. I popped it in, and it got halfway through the install, when it said it couldn't read from the disc. I pulled it out, and there's a really deep scratch in it. I don't have the original ISO, so I have to redownload it.
My computer is capable of running 64bit operating systems. What I want to know is, will any programs cease to work if I upgrade to the 64bit version of Ubuntu.
I currently have it setup with 4 partitions 1 and 2 were the original system partitions that came with the computer, to restore Windows. 3 and 4 are ones I created for Ubuntu.
Partition 3 has the Ubuntu Root files, and 4 has my Home files.
I run VirtualBox with Windows XP as a guest inside Ubuntu. The guest disk is saved on my Home Partition. Everything else is standard or comes from Package Managers.