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Re: which image shall I use for P4/2.9G



On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 05:40 -0500, Long Wind wrote:
> I have run a squeeze i386 CD
> After selecting the first menu item "Install" the screen turn blank
> 
> I have run a suse 9.3 installation CD
> it says I'm running 32-bit software on  64bit computer
> 
> I have plugged hard disk with i386 wheezy
> the new computer can't run wheezy

On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 11:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 2. https://startpage.com/ Search for: P4 processor
> 
> Result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4
> 
> IOW you can use i386 and amd64. You can't use ia64.

"Instruction set x86 (i386)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4

Test it yourself with a live CD:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-5.6/slacko-5.6-4G-NON-PAE.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-5.6/slacko-5.6-4G-NON-PAE.iso.md5.txt

I didn't use this version, but the PAE version yesterday on my 64-bit
machine. It has got newbie friendly tools that in addition aren't
annoying for experienced users.







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