On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 08:15:12AM +0000, Erik Josefsson wrote: > The HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF that I'm about to grab has a Intel Core > i5-2400S processor. > > I browsed the Debian installer pages and as far as I understand I should use > "other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.)" for the installation, but to me it > is not obvious if I should use the image for the amd64 or the i386 > architecture:
You want amd64. That's the 64-bit version, also promoted as "x86_64" by Intel's marketing forces trying to detract from the fact that AMD beat them to the punch.