On 07/28/2016 08:05 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/28/2016 5:11 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: >> i would very much like to install 7-32 > > why? your 2009 vintage low end mass market laptop is hopelessly > underpowered by today's standards, you should stick with software thats > approximately as old as it is. however, the Semperon SI-42 is, I > believe, a 64 bit capable CPU, so why not run native x86_64 win 7 on it? > ===> you are very correct. not in question to your knowledge, i did run a search to locate info on cpu for my knowledge. what caused my thinking to be in error is there is a label to right of rest pad that states 'Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit'. chemo brain again. 8=\ run 'win 7', no way in hell do i run oos. this lt came with oos 7 already installed. after i tricked the oos 7 partition a few times to reduce size, i repartitioned drive with oos down to sda1= 1.6 GB system, sda2= 43.0 GB oos 7, sda4= 8.4 GB recovery, sda3= extended sda5= 1.1 GB boot, sda6= 3.1 GB swap, sda7 thru sda10= 11 GB linux os, sda11= 84 GB home, sda12= 66 GB open use. only reason i left oos 7 is that if i ever, God forbid, am forced to lower my self, it is installed. only times i have booted oos was during repartitioning to see if it had problems with sda3. it did not, i have not booted oos again. i did pull an update package, do not recall which and i burned the 3 dvds. that i all i have done with oos. during the writing of this, i started pulling 7.1511 on tower. i do thank you for bringing it to my attention. very much appreciated. -- peace out. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 tc,hago. g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+=