which Debian mirror?

Pitlo · 12-12-2004, 11:13 AM

Hello all,

A newbie question: can I download whatever Debian package is on the bittorrent page (Index of /pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/torrents) or must I pick a particular one?

all kinds of mirrors are mentioned:
alpha/
arm/
hppa/
i/386
ia/64

I have a Pentium 4, with a processor : AMD athlon XP 1800+

I don't know if it matters if I choose one mirror or the other but I hope anyone can tell.

Greetings,
Pitlo

P.s.: i wish i could have given you the url but the forum prevented me from doing that.

macondo · 12-12-2004, 11:51 AM

yours is i386, they are not mirrors, they architectures.
If you choose the wrong one, it won't work.

wrat · 12-14-2004, 07:19 AM

pentium or amd which is it?? for a p4 you want i686 not i386 for amd you want k7 or k8

Pitlo · 12-14-2004, 07:22 AM

Hello all,

I have got a Pentium 4. Does that mean I have to use i686? And I don't know what amd means.

Pitlo

dyw · 12-14-2004, 08:51 PM

If you do have a Pentium 4, and you know you do, then yes, you *should* use i686 packages. But I don't see why i386 packages wouldn't 'work...' just not optimized for your machine, I think.

darthtux · 12-15-2004, 05:27 AM

i386 is for the intel 32 bit architecture. So that is what you use. Look at the Debian site.