Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
On 11/11/06, Christian Escalante <cescalan@shaw.ca> wrote:I just bought a Dell Inspiron 640m T7400 that has an Intel core 2 duo processor and I want to install debian. Could anyone let me know what ISO images should I download? i386? or 64_x86? Where can I find the right ISO images. Thank you in advance for your help and time.I wish I knew, but it seems that the closest candidate is:http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/ia64/iso-cd/debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso
Both i386 and x86_64 (or as it is called AMD64) will install. ia64 will *not* install ... that's for the Intel Itanium arch which has a different instruction set and arch. use i386 if you need it to have the widest selection of packages. AMD64(x86_64) if you want to use the processor complete abilities. Some packages might give problems though, but most everything will work. I'm in the same situation .... have Dell inspirion 6400 with T5600 core2duo. installed Ubuntu x86_64 and fc6 x86_64 so far. worked fine except had to pass "noapic noalpic" parameters to kernel at boot. check : http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Double_Clock_Speed and also it seems to detect only one processor (as it's dual core.. should be two) this was in both ubuntu and fc6 (x86_64). am giving debian AMD64(x86_64) a try probably over the weekend. will inform how it goes. haven't found any info on the "why only single processor" in /proc/cpuinfo so far .... if anybody has any idea please could you provide some information. Vibhav Sharma