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Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system



Bill Wohler wrote:
Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com> writes:

Hopefully the OP is still reading the thread anyway.

;-).

Thanks for all the feedback.

So with 64 bit comes a larger address space. I suppose throughput
should be faster two, no?

Anyway, as it turns out, the proper keyword is amd64. I should install
the amd64 installation image and the linux-image-amd64 kernel.

Of course! How stupid of me! I have an Intel processor so I should
install an amd image. That's so obvious. How silly of me to think that
ia64 might have meant "Intel Architecture 64".

Itanium ;)

Why, why, why, did the Debian developers rename the Linux kernel's
designation "x86_64" to "amd64"?!?!?!


AFAIK, AMD got there first with 64 bit processors such as the opteron and the amd64. em64t was just an add on to existing p4 processors to take account of the 64 bit instruction set used by AMD.

HTH

Wackojacko



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