Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Tom Bragg wrote:
>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> 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 ??
>> 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.
>
> Distinctly confusing, particularly when IA32 is Intel's name for
> the x86/i386 architecture...
>
> IA32 == x86 == i386 == i486 == i586 == i686 == 32-bit PC
> AMD64 == x64 == x86_64 == EM64T == 64-bit PC
> IA64 == Itanium
>
> I think that covers most of the variants in common use.
>
> Hugo.
>
>
Thanks guy's I'll start downloading the x86_64 iso's !!!
Brian
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