Question: which Installer?

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Tue Sep 28 11:52:17 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:53:00PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> On 28/09/04 13:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >Yes, something along these lines.  Terms with good recognition are:
> >
> >i386: "IBM compatible", "PC", "Windows", "Pentium", "Athlon"
> >powerpc: "Apple", "Macintosh", "PowerBook", "iBook"
> >amd64: "Athlon64" (not much else yet, it seems...)
> 
> The other term used for x86-64 hardware that might be worth mentioning 
> is "EM64T", which is used in the 64-bit Pentium 4 model names.  This is 
> assuming that the amd64 version works on those systems ...

I don't believe anyone's tested it, but it should work.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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