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ok, just tryed to download some dirvers off the 'interweb' and was posed with the question what archutecture is your mashine? It didn't have the option "i don't know" so basicly i am stuffed till i know
I already know my mashine is a X86 but its giving me the options like i386 i686 and atholon?
Just get i386 - it is compatible with earlier model processors and upwards. Alternatively, if your processor is by AMD, get the Athlon one. You should have a sticky label on your pc/laptop which either says "Intel Inside" (in which case, get i386) or AMD (in which case, get Athlon).
If you have an Athlon then choose Athlon(doh), otherwise i686 unless your CPU is Pentium or below, or i386 which will work in most cases(anyone still using a 286?)
If you don't know post the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
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