Re: Hello from Sweden
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:06:59PM -0500, EMNI Pablo Rafael L?pez Mart?nez wrote:
> I have changed the memory cards twice and installed in a different PC,
> and the same error occur, this time I used a PC with a P4, 3.0 Ghz, and an
> Asus P5LD2-VM board. I was thinking it was the DVD, but downloaded again and
> the problem remains.
> I installed Debian on a HP DL 360 G4, v?a CD netinst and installed
> perfectly. I began to have doubts about my real architecture. Is amd64
> really, or it is i386?. I went to wikipedia and there I saw that a P4 has
> em64t instructions.
> My brain is like lettuce because of this.
Some late P4's had em64t, most of them do not.
Of course any cpu that has em64t can still run i386 just fine, and for
some things it is a lot simpler to stick with i386 which is much more
tested and supported (things like flash and video codecs and such are a
pain to deal with on amd64 so far while very easy on i386).
What happens when you try to boot the amd64 install cd? It should tell
you very quickly if your system isn't 64bit compatible.
Certainly the HP DL 360 G4 is 64bit compatible. The P4 on the other
hand, not sure. Depends on the model of the cpu. Do you know which
model of P4 you have? 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' might have enough info to
tell. For 3000MHz models it looks like the few that have 64bit support
are:
Pentium 4 HT 531
Pentium 4 HT 631
The rest of the 3000Mhz models do not as far as I can tell.
--
Len Sorensen
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