On 7/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a bunch of fairly high-end servers, all with dual dual-core Xeon 
> processors. Xeon's
> are supposed to be 64-bit processors, but they are all running i386 kernels. 
> I want to
> download the appropriate Debian distribution for these boxes to enable 64-bit 
> processing.
> Do I need the ia64, the amd64, or something else?

amd64 is the correct distro to use, however, you'll want to dump the
amd64 kernel and install the EM64 kernel.  The EM64 kernel is
optimized for the Intel x86 64 chips.

ia64 is specifically for Itanium, which is a completely different architecture.

-- 
-- Thomas
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