32 or 64 bit advice

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i had to install it before i could really play with linux lite 2.8 i could not update it and install anything but it make sense because your just loading an iso image so you cant do much then just look at everything unless you install on a separate usb drive then it should run fine try that and update it you may be able to clone it to your base HD for an easy way to have everything run but on a basic spin-up HD just install it its it can rewrite nearly an infinite amount of times. but a usb you can only do a small amount of times if anything use a smaller 40 gb drive as a " scrap drive for os testing to see if you like it or not before you install it permanently

hope this helps that is more less what i was doing till my main ssd died not im planing to boot with a pcmcia compact flash 32gb drive as boot and a 2 tb HD for storage