Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv.

My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for what you will.  Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid to reboot as my last working device.  If I didn't hate windoze so much, I might actually try it again, but it's performance on my xps15 was absolute shite with the 4k display.  Like mouse lag randomly just to screw with me and slow down everything working.

-mb

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

It is most definitely 64 bit. I had 64 bit 16.04 running like a champ until the 18.04 upgrade was done. 

It also ran vmware 6.7 well also. 

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:02 PM Thomas Scott <mr.thomas.scott@gmail.com> wrote:

I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was installed upside down and burnt out it's drives after a few years (surprised it lasted that long). When I came on-site to reinstall it, I tried to install 16.04 since I already had the install media on me, I couldn't as it had issues with the RAID array controller. I had to roll back to 14.04 and then upgrade it to maintain compatibility. I had a similar issue with CentOS6/7 a bout a year ago as well, also on HP servers. In my experience, both times it was the RAID controller. 

Thomas Scott about.me/thomas.scott

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:47 PM Todd Cole <toddc@azloco.com> wrote:

I suspect it may be 32Bit computer but it should give you a i386 hardware error during installation.

while 18.04 is only 64 bit you can use the net install at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/bionic/

it has a community supported 32 bit version available

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

I have an older Proliant server I am trying to make use of at home. The hardware is fully functional, and aside from needing some spare drive sleds, It is ready to go.

However, I cannot run 18.04 on the server and I suspect it is related to changes in the kernel and I am trying to map those.

The Architecture is Dual Opteron quad-core Processors and DDR2 ECC Registered memory. I think it is a DL 365 Gen 1 (would have to look to make sure)

Does anyone have thoughts on how I could gracefully get this hardware to a current kernel?

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