<p>There are different debian installers for i686 and AMD64. You most likely downloaded the wrong ISO.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 18, 2011 12:15 PM, "John Heim" <<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All,<br>
<br>
This morning I installed debian squeeze on a machine with an AMD64 CPU. But<br>
the installer never asked me which kernel I wanted and it put a 686 kernel<br>
on the thing. Why did it do that and how can I make it either ask me or<br>
make it default to a 64 bit kernel? Below is some of the output from<br>
getSystemId & 'cat /proc/cpu_info'. Maybe a clue as to what the problme is<br>
that if I do a uname -p, it says my processor is unknown. Maybe linux can't<br>
ID my CPU and therefore doesn't know its 64 bit?<br>
<br>
Product Name: PowerEdge SC1435<br>
BIOS Version: 1.1.2<br>
Vendor: Dell Inc.<br>
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD<br>
model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210<br>
<br>
# uname -p<br>
unknown<br>
<br>
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