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Intalling Ubuntu 12.10 /or 9.04 on an old pc and/ or HP 635 laptop

Asked by Johannes Jonker

Hello There!..

I've downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and 9.04 - Desktop, respectively and burned a them on separate dvd and cd. But when I run setup.exe or booting from drive E:
I get a welcome display, choose language, ... then Install Ubuntu but got this error message:
" This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. "

How should I go about installing Ubuntu bypassing all this? Please help... as I even tried to choose the option to try Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You have downloaded the 64bit ISO and the CPU you have is 32bit. You need to download the 32bit ISO

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

I also suggest you boot to the CD and resize your NTFS partition and install a real install of Ubuntu rather than Wubi.

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Johannes Jonker (tjonker45) said : 		#3

But on my System Properties it says System Type 64-bit Operating System...

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

What CPU does the system use?

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