Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Merciadri Luca : >I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen >i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. I have ever choosen AMD when possible and they run all Linux flavours like a charm. Just for the record, - I like challengers, and AMD is Intel's one (with more

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. I'll have a deeper look in this as soon as possible. Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 01 iul 10, 15:06:33, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS >>> (AMD or Intel). >>>

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 01 iul 10, 15:06:33, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS > > (AMD or Intel). > Thanks. > > If you are using it for personal purpose i386 is preferred. Other wise > > i recommend i686. > W

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > Hi, > > It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS > (AMD or Intel). Thanks. > If you are using it for personal purpose i386 is preferred. Other wise > i recommend i686. Why (briefly)? (Or give me a pointer.) Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca S

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/01/2010 06:53 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS (AMD or Intel). If you are using it for personal purpose i386 is preferred. Other wise i recommend i686. There is no i686 arch in Debian. The i386 arch, though, do

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi, It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS (AMD or Intel). If you are using it for personal purpose i386 is preferred. Other wise i recommend i686. Krishna On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Hi, > > I've never

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/01/2010 06:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. The fact is that I've got to install Debian on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. The AMD world is totally stranger for me. I would like

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:26:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen >> i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. The fact is that I've got to >> install Debian on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. The AMD world i

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:26:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen > i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. The fact is that I've got to > install Debian on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. The AMD world is > totally stranger for me

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Leon
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-04-01 Thread Wackojacko
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-04-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: > > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > > should I use? > > The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run > Windows, od

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 31 March 2008 21:24, Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? > > Thanks > > Phil Wiley > Massachusetts, USA You mean to download an image fo install: i386 will do. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run Windows, odds are you're on i386, less likely ia64 or amd64. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/08 14:24, Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? Are you asking whether this is a 32-bit or 64-bit system? (Since x86-64 systems also have a 32-bit mode, you can always run it

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > Some more info: compiled on my own unstable machine, also got serious > > problems. Then I recompiled on my machine optimising for 486 instead of > > Athlon, sounds like there was no problem. So AMD optimization is broken? > > That's it. I've seen numerous problems related to the Athlon

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 23 2001, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Some more info: compiled on my own unstable machine, also got serious > problems. Then I recompiled on my machine optimising for 486 instead of > Athlon, sounds like there was no problem. So AMD optimization is broken? That's it. I've seen numero

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> I am now compiling him a kernel on my machine (running unstable), hoping > this might sort it out. Might it be GCC3 issues? (What compiler is used > when using make-kpkg btw? And when compiling .deb's from source? > (gcc2.xx or gcc3)) I guess it might be testing's prerelease gcc3 > (1:3.0-0pre010

Re: amd athlon

2000-08-11 Thread John Reinke
Actually, it's just the kernel that comes with the 2.1 installation CD or floppy images. Believe me, I just bought the CD, and it wouldn't install on my Athlon system. I'd suggest installing 2.2 (potato). John On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Tal Danzig wrote: > I don't think it will work with 2.1 > > Use

Re: amd athlon

2000-08-11 Thread Tal Danzig
I don't think it will work with 2.1 Use potato, or a potato based distro like Libranet. Tal On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:10:08 -0700, Daniel Gebhardt said: > Are there any issues with using the athlon processor on debian 2.1? > I thought I read something about needing to use 2.2 > > i'm abou