Re: new user
mgolly@hotmail.com wrote,
>I am not sure what the architecture of my computer is, so how do I
>find this out if I bought the parts and put them together myself.?
If you bought the parts, then you certainly know if you bought an
Intel, SPARC or AMD cpu, if you bought a 64bit cpu, serial ATA or IDE
disks, etc.
So, if you bought an AMD or Intel cpu, try first the i386 disks. They
will most likely work no matter what since it's the most common
architecture.
If you're worried about particular hardware, get yourself a KNOPPIX
disk and see what it detects. A friend of mine used this technique to
discover his hardware that came with XP because he wanted to run
Win2K instead and Win2K has no hardware detection what so ever.
...so of course I bugged him that he should have just run Linux
anyway, but he needed it for work and games.
Bob-
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