[LBo] How to installl linux to Pentium D

[Ali Metin]

Which architecture is my cpu AMD 64 or i386?
It is actually an x86-64 but I think this is another name of AMD64. I am not sure.




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> From: mesamoo115 at comcast.net
> To: qna at linuxbasics.org
> Subject: Re: [LBo] How to installl linux to Pentium D
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 10:33:47 -0800
> 
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 05:57, Ali Metin wrote:
> > INTEL PENTIUM D 945 3.4GHz LGA775 800MHz
> > HT 2x2MB PR DUAL COREASUS
> >   P5B DELUXE P965 LGA 775 CORE2 DUO COMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD2 x 1GB
> > DDR2 RAMI have a box like this. I want to install a linux distro
> > and kernel (which benefits more from this box) .But I dont know
> > which. What do you suggest?
> 
> Something that people haven't been addressing is your specific 
> hardware.
> 
> I have an asus p5b (not deluxe) based on the 965 chipset. This 
> particular board only supports 1 IDE drive through an seperate 
> jMicron PATA/SATA controller.
> 
> I have never had so much trouble inastalling an operating system as 
> I did with this motherboard (and I've been setting up my own linux 
> multi-boot systems for about 6 years now). To make things worse any 
> google search for p5b brings up every variation of the motherboard 
> and very little of the information is specific to the basic p5b.
> 
> Having said that, if your board relies on the jMicron controller 
> then the advice I have is to use a distro that runs off the 2.6.18 
> or later kernel, or (as I had to do) get ahold of a usb cdrom drive 
> and install linux from that. (I believe that if you know how to set 
> up an installer cd from a usb key this would work too but I haven't 
> tried).
> 
> I believe that opensuse 10.2 uses the 2.6.18+ kernel so it should 
> install w/out probs but I won't know for sure until it's released 
> on thursday. 
> 
> HTH
> 
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