Debian ia64 Install (WAS "4GB memory")

[Jamon Camisso]

Giles Orr wrote:
> As a follow-up to the previous thread: I turned off "Virtual Memory"
> in Vista, rebooted, defragged, and asked Vista to shrink its own
> partition ... and it offered to give me a full 89MB more.  Uh huh,
> thanks but no thanks.
> 
> GPartEd believes it would have no trouble resizing Vista's partition.
> I haven't taken it up on that yet.
> 
> But what's got me writing today: I used jigdo to create an ISO of
> debian-testing-ia64-CD-1 (the same process that successfully made a
> bootable CD of i386) and the computer won't boot from it.  It mounts
> and I can see the files on it, but it won't boot.  I can't remember
> how to do an md5sum on a CD to compare to the ISO and it seemed easier
> to download and burn debian-testing-ia64-businesscard ... which
> behaved in exactly the same way.  The computer attempts to boot from
> CD, thinks about it for about five seconds, and then boots from the
> HD.  As I say, both appear to be valid discs.  Debian's instructions
> just say "boot from the disc," as if there's nothing special to be
> done.  Anyone have any ideas?

IA-64 is a little misleading, as is amd64 in a way. IA-64 is for Intel 
Itanium processors (you'd most certainly know if you had one), whereas 
amd64 is for amd64 chips, and for Pentium dual core and core2duo chips 
as well. Try http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd

Jamon
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