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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