Well, I took the plunge and converted my long-standing Kubuntu to 64-bit. It was a fairly painless process. I ran the installer, selected to format my root (/) partition as ext4, and selected my current /home partition to remain as /home and remain as ext3 (since setting it to ext4 would have forced a format of the partition).
As a result, everything in my root partition was wiped out and reinstalled but all my program settings and stuff in /home were left intact. I've since had to reinstall a bunch of third party programs, but once they're installed again they pick up all the settings from my /home partition and things are peachy.
But there is one main problem. I converted to 64-bit in order to access all 4 gigs of ram. However, it's still showing as 2.8 gigs. I've read I may need to recompile the kernel. Any ideas before I look more into that?
As a result, everything in my root partition was wiped out and reinstalled but all my program settings and stuff in /home were left intact. I've since had to reinstall a bunch of third party programs, but once they're installed again they pick up all the settings from my /home partition and things are peachy.
But there is one main problem. I converted to 64-bit in order to access all 4 gigs of ram. However, it's still showing as 2.8 gigs. I've read I may need to recompile the kernel. Any ideas before I look more into that?
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