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Re: Installing Wheezy on a box that is new to me.



On 5/17/2013 12:32, Paul Condon wrote:
> I have a computer on which I wish to install Wheezy. I have inquired
> locally in Colorado about which flavor of Wheezy I should (previously I
> have only ever had occasion to use i386). The box
> is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with Pentium 4 HT processor. I have been told
> that this processor is Itanium. I am skeptical, but maybe so.
> I have trashed the preloaded Windows XP software in attempting to follow
> other advice. The box operates very nicely when I boot it with a Knoppix
> 7.0.5 live DVD, but I want Wheezy. I have good connection to the
> internet. I hope to use Jigdo to download a single CD image to boot on
> the box and do the main work of getting all the packages via the
> internet. But which single CD image to I need to jigdo? Why CD? Because
> I have writer that is only CD, not DVD.
> 
> TIA,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
You want the i386 net install ISO:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-7.0.0-i386-netinst.iso

Also the Pentium 4 is definitely NOT an Itanium processor.

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