On 6 January 2016 at 18:47, Martin Smith <li...@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

> On 06/01/2016 18:34, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
>> Dear Folks.
>>
>> I am running Debian etch on an old AMD Duron 1200 box.
>>
>> It's so long since I used it I can't remember if it must be running the
>> 32 bit version of Debian ie 64 bit version cannot run on it?
>>
>> uname -m says i686 which makes me think it is 64 bit.
>>
> unlikely, I think Duron's were pre 64 bit chips, but I could be wrong and
> someone will correct me if that is the case.
>
> ​Many thanks for the help here.  This means that if I want to upgrade to
>> Lenny I need to find a repository that is of the x86 32 bit variety.
>>
>
​Cheers MF

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