[Discuss] [vlug] which debian .iso is required for dual core 64 bit intel ?

[Deryk Barker]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-03-16 20:27+0530 J. Bakshi wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Please help me to solve my confusion. I like to install debin squeeze 
>> on a box equipped with dual core 64 bit intel processor. But I have 
>> not found any X86-64 .iso for squeeze but the amd64 and ia64 .iso
>>
>> Where are the x86-64 variant ?
>
> See http://www.fr.debian.org/releases/stable/mips/ch02s01.html.en.
>
> ia64 corresponds to Intel IA-64 hardware.  However, are you sure that 
> is the
> hardware you have?  That hardware was the result of Intel's initial foray
> into the 64-bit hardware world and was not too successful in the market.
Indeed, better known as the Itanium (or, to The Register, the Itanic).

Funnily enough I just finished teaching a class on the IA-64 
architecture - it is *completely* different.
> It's more likely you have "amd64" Intel hardware where Intel essentially
> copied AMD's wildly successful 64-bit platform.
Having already declared there would never be a 64-bit x86 CPU, as the 
Itanic was the way forward (pity about the iceberg).

deryk