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Reyer
October 5th, 2010, 03:12 AM
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto my brand new pc hoping to get some basic stuff up and running so i could test out my hardware. Hoping I would be able to run programs at a faster pace i ignored the advanced user warning and installed the 64 bit version.

Now that i got to explore around the OS and this forum im finding out that i cant run WINE(or can i?) and many other things on Ubuntu 64.

So now my problem is that i have no clue how to downgrade to 32 bit. I have 32bit installed on a bootable flash drive but i dont know how to erase my hdd completely to replace it with the downgraded version. Any help would be awesome.

Thanks
cgroza
October 5th, 2010, 03:14 AM
You need to reinstall Ubuntu with a 32 bit ISO image burned to a CD or bootable flash drive.
psusi
October 5th, 2010, 03:44 AM
You can run wine just fine on 64 bit, but yea, if you want to switch you have to reinstall.
Reyer
October 5th, 2010, 03:47 AM
You need to reinstall Ubuntu with a 32 bit ISO image burned to a CD or bootable flash drive.

Then what?

When i boot with USB FDD it just runs the regular Ubuntu.
psusi
October 5th, 2010, 03:49 PM
Then what?

When i boot with USB FDD it just runs the regular Ubuntu.

Then nothing; if you install with the 32 bit install disk then you will be running 32 bit.
formaldehyde_spoon
October 10th, 2010, 03:44 PM
Wine runs on 64 bit, no problems: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

Also, new 64 bit Flash: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html