Re: Regading an installation experiment

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 14/06/15 10:29 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
> On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater 
> > understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop 
> > from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot 
> > properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie i386.
> >
> > The laptop has actually an AMD Athlon processor. The fact about 
> > getting another copy is that it requires resources and time to 
> > download. Thus, can I use the i386 one to install.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Himanshu Shekhar
> > India
>
> Yes, the i386 DVD will be fine.
Actually, the i386 designation is probably a misnomer these days. The 
minimum install spec is usually a Pentium, often with PAE. The 
alternative is AMD64 which requires a 64-bit processor. You can run 32 
bit on AMD64 but not the inverse.