Took hard drive out of older 386 machine and installed it in newer with AMD FX4300. System will not let me uggrade to latest install due to 386 limitation . How do I fix that and write out the 386 limit?
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Re-install. You given no specifics as to your OS & release, but a i386 architecture install needs to be re-installed to change architecture to amd64. – guiverc Oct 27 '20 at 02:19
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The duplicate link gives options, myself I believe a re-install is far easier & it's not worth the hassle of trying to migrate an architecture change. You gave no release details, however you can re-install and have it auto-return the same packages (if available in new release & Ubuntu repositories), without touching any user files (assuming desktop apps, as system directories get wiped some server apps will need confs restored by you gave no specifics), but you should of course backup regardless as problems can occur (even if unexpected). – guiverc Oct 27 '20 at 02:22
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Ubuntu 18.04 flavors are the last supported releases for x86 (32-bit i686) computers.
your system isn't let you install newer specs OS that has amd64 architecture in i386 compatible hardware due to their addressing capability.
You should try for 18.04 i386 version of Lubuntu for less specs. even computers having 1 GB RAM can run lubuntu smoothly too.
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