On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +0000, fuf wrote: > Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew > which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp. > didn't take amd64. > i386-netinst Debian 12 was being installed perfectly, and later I could to > read a disk owned to the comp.: > CPU > Support Processor Intel Sandy Bridge (Dual core / Quad core) (optional)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge Instruction set x86-64 Instructions x86, x86-64 You could run amd64 on this machine. Right now, you have a choice between the two, but some distributions have already dropped support for i386. amd64 would be the more future-proof choice.