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Re: ups english ... Netinstall ia64



On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:07:58PM +0200, Tobias Schön wrote:
> it's an INTEL Atom 330 with iA64
>
> could it be the BlueRay Drive via USB2.0 ?

No, really. If you want to use 64-bit Linux on that processor then you
need amd64. AMD pioneered the x86_64 architecture work and Intel later
copied it.

IA64 == Itanium, Intel's _other_ 64-bit architecture.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
 English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on
 occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them
 unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."  -- James D. Nicoll


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