> Hello folks, > For the past few days I've been trying to install 64 bit Etch on a > Dell 1950 with quad core Xeon processors. I've downloaded the DVD iso's > from Ga. Tech's mirror twice. Both times I get a message saying, "Bad > PBR signature" and the machine stops. I tried the second download on a > different machine in case there was some corruption the first time. > So, I have several questions really. First, I thought the AMD and ia > 64 bit were supposed to merge. What happened to that? Or, should I be > trying the AMD64 distros instead? I've gotten Sarge AMD64 bit distro to > work on Dell 1850s, with some head scratching, but I wanted to move up > to Etch for this new hardware and application. Where can I find a > bootable 64 bit Etch install that will work for the Dell 1950? > Any suggestions are welcome.
Hey Bill, IA64 is Itanium and AMD64 is Xeon/Opteron/em64t stuff. You are posting in an itanium list about xeons, two TOTALLY different archs. If you are on a xeon system, use AMD64 cd/dvds. This assumes you know how to download/check/ burn ISO's properly. If cd/dvd's are ok then there must be a hardware problem or the bios may need to be upgraded to the latest? later..... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
