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



On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:25:37PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> On 12/31/2013 12:08 PM, Long Wind wrote:
> >I have just got a  P4/2.9G computer
> >it seems that my old 32bit(i386) software can't run on it
> >it needs 64-bit software
> >
> >Shall I choose CD image from ia64?
> >Thanks!
> 
> Hi Long Wind,
> 
> IA-64 architecture is for Intel Itanium processors.
> 
> Pentium 4 processor is a desktop processor and it's 32-bit or
> 64-bit. The official name for 64-bit desktop processors is AMD64,
> but there are a lot of synonyms like x86_64, Intel EMT-64, x64,
> 64-bit PC, etc.
> 
> If your processor is 32-bit then download i386 CD image, but if your
> processor is 64-bit then you can download amd64 CD image or the old
> i386 (32-bit) architecture.

It's times like this that I really wish more people knew about the
multi-arch (i386/amd64) CD image.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/

I assume there's a technical reason why there's not a multi-arch netinst
image, though.

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