On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Len Conrad <lcon...@go2france.com> wrote:

> Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850?


You wont even et IA64 booting as that is a compilation for Itanium
processors.

For the 64bit enabled Xeon processors Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction
set.
    Therefor the correct distro to use on this machine would be AMD64 or
i386 if you have a need to run 32bit software.


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