Starting a new thread, because I caught a glimpse of where this is heading.
Dig it: 64-bit. Whenever I've installed any OS, I never got the choice. After
I heard from Nik or whoever that it looked to be 64-bit, I tried some 64-bit
installation discs, but of course get the error message "wrong architecture".
Bill
lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 15
Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz
Stepping: 13
CPU MHz: 1631.444
CPU max MHz: 2200.0000
CPU min MHz: 1200.0000
BogoMIPS: 4399.86
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 1024K
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl
est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm