I went to the debian website, and was going to DL the ISO in preparation to
install Linux on a computer I bought.

I've never DL'd it before, and noticed they had about a dozen flavors of the
distro to correspond with whatever computer you owned. (Eg, Alpha, PowerPC,
etc.)

There were none labled "PC" (ie what we used to call an IBM Clone -- what's
commonly used by Windows.).

Windows 2K does install out of a file on their cd labled "I386", and the old
stealth upper / high memory program had a program called "I386".

Am I correct in assuming that the ISO's under "I386" are appropriate for a
PC?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hello Seann!

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:06:16 -0600, Seann wrote:
> I went to the debian website, and was going to DL the ISO in preparation t
o
> install Linux on a computer I bought.
> [...]
> Am I correct in assuming that the ISO's under "I386" are appropriate for a
> PC?

Basically, yes. When being taken literally the term "PC" is quite
generic...

Info about the different hardware architectures and Debian's support
can be found at
<http://www.debian.org/ports/>

HTH,
Flo

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:06:16 -0600, Seann wrote:

> Am I correct in assuming that the ISO's under "I386" are appropriate for a
> PC?

Yes.

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"Florian Ernst" <florian@uni-hd.de> wrote in message
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> Hello Seann!
>
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:06:16 -0600, Seann wrote:
>
> Basically, yes. When being taken literally the term "PC" is quite
> generic...

Thanks. What *is* the current opperative term for a x86 / Pentium style
machine?

>
> Info about the different hardware architectures and Debian's support
> can be found at
> <http://www.debian.org/ports/>
>
> HTH,
> Flo


Thank you Flo for the gentle reply.

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"gregor herrmann" <gregor+usenet-0402@comodo.priv.at> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:06:16 -0600, Seann wrote:
>
> Yes.
>
> gregor
> --

Thanks Gregor. I appreciate the gentle response. 

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Hello again!

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:05:53 -0600, Seann wrote:
> What *is* the current opperative term for a x86 / Pentium style
> machine?

Debian uses the term "i386" for the Intel x86 / IA-32 architecture,
this includes 386, 486 and the Intel Pentium variants as well as their
AMD / Cyrix / Transmeta / ... counterparts like for example Athlon.
[ This flavor will also run on the AMD64 (Opteron) but won't use all
the extensions. For the latter there is a special port in development,
see the Debian Ports Page at <http://www.debian.org/ports/> for further
info. ]

Cheers,
Flo

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, gregor herrmann wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:06:16 -0600, Seann wrote:
> 

HOWTO install Debian with the net-installer-rc2
http://tinyurl.com/6uwvr

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