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Author: Brian Chivers
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Subject: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x86_64 or ia64
I'm about to install Centos onto our new servers but a little unsure which architecture to install ?

For Centos 4.4 there is both ia64 & x86_64 images but Centos 5 only has x86_64

The servers are dual Xeon 2.8's and are supposed to support EM64T technology.

I've already installed Etch onto one of them ready for the new version of Censornet & added the
linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 deb package via apt and it seems to work fine.

What's the difference & which would you go for ??

Thanks
Brian

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