At Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:31:04 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
i386 is for older technology PCs. The x86_64 is for newer PCs
How can I know that I have to use i386 or x86_64, my machine is not very new though.
How old is it?
The x86_64 release takes two DVDs, but the second DVD just has OpenOffice language packs.
It would be great if you get me the direct link like amongst http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/ which one? Further, without knowledge only, it took only one CD when I downloaded Fedora, here more than one CD is there? We cannot do it later by using some command like yum. Please elaborate.
There is one DVD and a bunch of CDs. The files have names that identify what they are. You want the one with 'DVD' in its name (there is both a direct download and one link for torrent (the link name as 'torrent' in it). The ones in the above directory are for 32-bit machines (i386). Look in
http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/
for the 64-bit versions.
You might want to start by downloading one of the Live CDs and using that to see if your system's hardware is supported.