Re: How to boot netinst CD from Toshiba Satellite 650?

[Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>]

Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Charles Blair wrote:
> >    Pressing F2 at the beginning gives me a menu, but I didn't

> >    Bonus question: I should be using AMD-64 netinst, right?
>
> Looks like that laptop has a 64 bits CPU. You can use both 32 and 64 

Actually if you use the laptop for a lot of streaming media it may be 
worthwhile to install 32 bits debian. This is because the some of 64 
bits codecs don't work very well whereas the 32 bits ones work fine.

It's one of the reasons I keep a 32 bits x86 system around and I have 
yet to find a satisfying solution.

I am refering to packages such as:

apt-cache policy w64codecs
w64codecs:
  Installed: 1:20071007-0.5
  Candidate: 1:20071007-0.5
  Version table:
 *** 1:20071007-0.5 0
        500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze/non-free amd64 
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


So it's not part of debian proper I guess.

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