On 06/22/11 at 11:15pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > The only netinst iso I see that has anything to indicate it is 64 bit > is named amd64. So when a PC is running Intel64, is there a 64 bit > ISO for that? > > I am installing Debian as guest in a vm running on win7 64 bit. Since > the ARCH is not amd, is there a 64 bit iso to use in that case? amd64 is the 64bit architecture used by both AMD and Intel in modern CPUs, also known as x86_64 chipset. The only other explicitly 64-bit architecture I'm aware of is Intels Itanium (IA64) architecture. I don't know of any software that currently virtualizes it. Long story short, you probably want amd64 if you're going to take advantage of a 64bit desktop CPU. If you don't have any reason to actually use the 64bit capacity, stick with the i386 iso. -- Liam
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