On Sb, 04 oct 14, 09:47:46, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC. > > What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads? > > My machine has nothing to do with amd Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64 > However, at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ the starting page for > `Getting Debian, at least the netinst images are separated into: > > 64-bit PC netinst.iso or 32-bit PC netinst.iso > > These are only wheezy far as I can tell. > > Surprisingly that page gives no reference to jessie downloads. That's on purpose, since Jessie is still testing. > You would never know there were jessie downloads by looking at > `Getting Debian' link. > > To find anything about debian jessie one must go to: > > https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ > > And if you follow the link to testing you will find no reference > whatever to 64-bit PC. > > Maybe we are just supposed to KNOW somehow... but I don't... so is > amd64 what I should download for a 64 bit PC? Yes. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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