[SOLVED] Which Linux Image options is right for my architecture?
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I believe the architecture you should use is amd64 (not listed in your post). It would help to know which distribution(s) you are considering, and for what purpose.
You can use either of i386 or amd64 since amd64 is fully backward compatible with i386 arch. If you have more than 4GiB of (system RAM+video RAM), then amd64 should be preferred.
I believe when you say "AMD 6000 CPU", it is probably either an AMD Athlon X2 6000 or an AMD Opteron 6000. It probably doesn't really matter from a software arch point of view which it is, even if these are different die mask parts.
i386 will work for these parts, but, if you have a decent amount of memory (greater than about 3 G) AMD64 may well be a better choice.
Last edited by salasi; 04-23-2010 at 05:22 PM.
Reason: ...need to do something about my slow fingers...
Also keep in mind Sarge was the 2005 release of Debian (amd64 architecture was not fully supported by Debian at that time), and support for it ended in 2008. Give the current release, Lenny, a try.
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