Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Beauregard wrote: > Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! 2 ways: 'ia' stands for Itanium (IIRC), Intel's try at a 64 bit chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 Debian built a distro for both the Intel and AMD 64 bi

Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The same way you knew (or didn't) to use i386 (short for: Intel 386) on 32- > bit AMD processors. Having been stuck in 32-bit userland since day nought, this has all thrown me. Is there a good reference link to explain the difference between these

Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49f0eadb.4070...@sky.com>, Tim Beauregard wrote: >> You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. > >Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! The same way you knew (or didn't) to use i386 (short for: Intel 386) on 32- bit AMD processors. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (4x2.83GHz)? > > You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!! Thank you for your advice! Tim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknw6tsACgkQsUUd

Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 23:19 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Its late and this may be a silly question but should I use the ia64 > architecture release to install onto a PC with an Intel Core2 Q9550 CPU > (4x2.83GHz)? You need the "amd64" flavour of Debian. Wolodja signature.asc Description: Di

Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Its late and this may be a silly question but should I use the ia64 architecture release to install onto a PC with an Intel Core2 Q9550 CPU (4x2.83GHz)? The images on http://www.uk.debian.org/distrib/netinst don't work, however an older i386 i