On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:05:17PM +0300, Elias Chrysoheris wrote: Hi :) > > I downloaded the DVD iso images of Debian Testing 4.0 for 686, burned them > using K3b, and installed it!. Everything is fine. After that, I downloaded > the DVD iso images of Debian Stable for IA64 to install it in an Intel Core > Duo system. I burned the DVDs using K3b again, but I found out that the DVDs > (actually the first one that is intented to be bootable) could not boot. I > downloaded the Network installation CD (iso image) but again it was not > bootable. Finally, I downloaded the first CD of the CD Installation iso > images, burned it, but again it could not boot. >
Wrong architecture, I'm afraid. ia64 is for the Intel Itanium - which is a rare beast on it's own and incompatible with everything else. Unless you're very lucky, or you're a major clearing bank needing to chunk vast amounts of data, it's almost certain that you'll never come across one in the wild :) Everything AMD/Intel that is 64 bit capable uses the amd64 .iso. This includes later model Sempron/Turion/Opteron and, of course, AMD64 and Intel Xeon/Core Duo/Core2 Duo. AMD got there first, so in Debian at least, it's amd64 - you may see people reference x86-64 as well. The Debian distro is purely 64 bit at the moment: you can install some 32 bit libraries for backward compatibility. To get optimum performance from some legacy 32 bit (particularly Adobe Flash and some other multimedia) some people run these in a chroot 32 bit environment. Hope this helps, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
