Author: Tom Bragg Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x86_64 or
ia64
On 25/04/07, Brian Chivers <brian@???> wrote: > I'm about to install Centos onto our new servers but a little unsure which architecture to install ?
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> For Centos 4.4 there is both ia64 & x86_64 images but Centos 5 only has x86_64
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> The servers are dual Xeon 2.8's and are supposed to support EM64T technology.
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> 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.
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> What's the difference & which would you go for ??
You need x86_64. This is another name for amd64 and em64t.
ia64 is for Itanium processors only and will not work on your system.
