Will my Ubuntu dist for AMD64 work on Intel Celeron

Question

Will my ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64 distribution load onto and run OK on my laptop running an Intel Celeron processor?

Answer 1

If your Celeron is a 64 bit Celeron, then yes. Otherwise, no (use the 32 bit, sometimes aka x86) version instead. Figuring out if you have a 32 bit or 64 bit CPU depends on the current operating system you have loaded. From Ubuntu you can press Ctrl-Alt-T and run the command lscpu; under CPU op-mode(s) it will say 32-bit, 64-bit or at least 64-bit if your CPU is 64 bit. Regardless, you can put in the install CD/DVD you have and boot from the disk to boot into Ubuntu without doing anything to your computer's hard drive. If the amd64 boot disk you have doesn't seem to work, that is probably telling and you can download the x86 boot disk.

Also see:

• Is the 64-Bit version of Ubuntu only compatible with AMD CPUs?
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/297254/do-i-have-the-correct-iso-file/297263#297263
• Difference between the i386 download and the amd64?

...as being related and possibly duplicate...