Which Debian for a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 775?

marcusshirley · 01-14-2006, 01:54 PM

Hi,

Firstly, I have to admit, I am a Linux novice!

I am building a webserver with an intel P4 HT 3.0Ghz 775 CPU. I have just ordered a CD set of Debian to put on my machine. Since placing the order this morning, I have read that there are different versions of Linux distros for different CPU types. The one I have ordered is "The full set of Debian GNU/Linux binary install CDs for the i386 platform".

Will this be the best version for my P4?

Thanks in advance,

Marcus Shirley

erimar77 · 01-14-2006, 02:03 PM

the i386 will be just fine

if you run into weird problems, you may want to disable HT in the bios

marcusshirley · 01-14-2006, 02:20 PM

Is HyperThreading not supported in Debian? Is there any way that I can use HT under Linux?

phil.d.g · 01-14-2006, 02:46 PM

Yes, but you will most likely have to recompile the kernel and enable symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) the kernel will then treat the CPU as two CPUs

RedShirt · 01-14-2006, 05:29 PM

And they have P4 optimizations which are good to turn on. Note that the 775 sockets could support EM64T depending on which one you bought. This would mean there is a chance you want to go with a 64bit distro as well, not the i386, which hopefully you get one optimized at 686, not 386.

It might be of note that your cpu is either i686 or x86_64/EM64T/AMD64. So look on intel.com based on which model number your proc is, and then you will know for sure which versions to narrow it down to.