Re: em64t

2007-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/07 04:45, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 20:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 08/09/07 19:07, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: >>> [...] >>> "[...]it's clearly stated" - I meant the difference between IA-64 and >>> EM64T/AMD64 (

Re: em64t

2007-08-10 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 20:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/07 19:07, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > [...] > > "[...]it's clearly stated" - I meant the difference between IA-64 and > > EM64T/AMD64 (emphasized right below "IA-64" heading at > > http://www.debian.org/ports/), not EM64T -> Intel

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 19:07, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Well, it's clearly stated on the overview page I provided. EM64T was >>> recently renamed to "Intel 64" - but, yes, the names here can be >>> con

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, it's clearly stated on the overview page I provided. EM64T was > > recently renamed to "Intel 64" - but, yes, the names here can be > > confusing. > > Where? I've looked and looked, but don't see it. (I am getting > old, though, a

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 17:17, Linas Žvirblis wrote: [snip] > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> You're mixing arches. em64t *is* the -amd64 architecture, which, >> obviously, isn't i386 (-686). > > You can install i386 operating system on AMD64 hardware, because AMD64

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 17:10, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: >>> [...] >>> I'm not big into x86-64 business, but AMD64 and EM64T / Intel 64 >> Danger!! Danger!!! >

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine... AMD64 == EM64T ==

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > [...] > > I'm not big into x86-64 business, but AMD64 and EM64T / Intel 64 > > Danger!! Danger!!! > > Intel has two wildly different 64-bit implementations: Itanium (aka > ia64) and em64t/amd

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which >> is >> compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...)

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 9, 2007 05:39:28 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which > is compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is > only a amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel > machin

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine... Hello