Last night I downloaded amd64 and installed it on the new pc. I had no
problems at all. In retrospect, the keyboard lock up problem I had may
have been the result of trying to install an old version of 32-bit
ubuntu, version 14. It may be this old version could not recognize some
things in the newer pc's and the keyboards. For example, during the
install with amd64 the message "Fast TCS Calibration Failed", indicating
a monitor problem, never came up. The reason I was using the old ver 14
is because that was the version I downloaded to install on my 2004
vintage tower case. I never intended to have the final web site on this
machine. I put it on this machine just to learn a little about Ubuntu.
Last year I had downloaded version 14 because the newer version, ver 16
32-bit, was too large to fit on my CD disk. I did not know at the time I
could have used a thumb drive in a USB port.
It is odd that in amd64 the sudo aptitude command is not recognized. Now
it is apt. One would have thought the developers of Ubuntu would have
kept the old along with the new.
Stan
On 5/20/2017 4:37 PM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Stan Gorodenski
> stanlep@commspeed.net [LINUX_Newbies]<LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> amd64 is for 64bit. Give it a whirl. Typically, the sort of problems
>>> you're describing are memory issues (either bad RAM, or it could well
>>> be that 32bit is being flaky on a system with 8GB). Also remember
>>> though, you're running this off a USB stick, IN MEMORY, until you
>>> install it. That means if you're using USB 2.0, it'll be really slow,
>>> seem to hang or freeze and be generally annoying. And sounds like you
>>> were using the desktop version of 32bit anyway, so it's possible that
>>> what you were experiencing was due to video drivers or something along
>>> those lines. The Server Install is NON-GUI, so just keep that in
>>> mind. You can install the desktop on top of Ubuntu Server, but Server
>>> does not include it by default (it's not even on the ISO image).
>>>
>>>
>> It is running off a CD disk that I burned the 32-bit Ubuntu server
>> install on (Ubuntu server, not desktop). The CD has a 700 MB capacity
>> and runs at a max of 52x speed. It is running in the optical disk drive
>> part of the machine. I assume the drive also accepts CD's in addtion to
>> DVD's. I'll check with a Geek I have an appointment with to see this
>> morning to make sure there is no problem running the CD in this optical
>> drive. Does this help target the problem any?
>>
> Yeah, that will make it a lot slower if it has to read off the disk,
> but it still loads a significant portion of everything into RAM first.
> That said, it's always easier to use USB sticks for the install,
> they're faster and the ISO images don't always adhere to 700MB limit
> for CDs, especially for Desktop.
>
>
Posted by: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@commspeed.net>
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