Re: Fail to detect the Cd-Rw

[Manolo Díaz <damdl@deneb.org.es>]

Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:21:40PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:15:01PM -0700, chindea mihai wrote:
>>>> Hy,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to install the AMD64 OS version, on my PC, the boot worked fine, but when installer should Detect and Mount the cdrom, failed to detect any. I was wondering if there is any problem with my mainboard. I have an Abit Aw8-Max, a Intel Pentium D 830, and 2 optical units, a cd-rw and a dvd-rw both Plextor.
>>>> Can you please tell me what should I do, so the installer to detect one of my optical unit.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>> Can an Intel Pentium D run an AMD 64 OS?  
>>>
>>> Not having either yet (building first AMD system now) I don't know for
>>> sure.  I would have thought that the AMD64 is the wrong Debian port.
>>> Read the Ports page at debian.org and see, try IA_64.
> i don't now either if a pentium D 830 has the EM64T/AMD64/x86_64
> extions, but IA64 is wrong in any case.

It seems it has, so amd64 must be a correct dist.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

> IA64 is the architecture of the itanium cpu from intel...
> 
> yours
> albert
> 

Regards
Manolo