#1 2016-12-12 04:26:15

itsme

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Quick reassurance

Not sure which .iso to download for installation on my old Toshiba Satellite L650 with an Intel i5, 4GB RAM, 64 bit laptop.

Any advice appreciated, Thanks.

vrkalak

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Re: Quick reassurance

My "old" as in ancient,  is a Toshiba Satellite 650 Laptop -- old Crunchbang-11  x64 -- works like charm.

I have put any OS-Distro other than Debian / LinuxMint / Crunchbang on it - ever.

I don't know if Bunsen-Labs will work - I would give a shot.

Last edited by vrkalak (2016-12-12 06:35:22)

iMBeCil

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Re: Quick reassurance

Not sure which .iso to download for installation on my old Toshiba Satellite L650 with an Intel i5, 4GB RAM, 64 bit laptop.

Any advice appreciated, Thanks.

bl-Hydrogen-amd64_20160710.iso is highly definitely positively recommende for your laptop 

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Quick reassurance

^ +1

If you have a 64-bit machine then you should use a 64-bit operating system, 4GiB of RAM is almost excessive for BL unless you like VMs

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itsme

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Re: Quick reassurance

Many thanks for the great replies.
I wasn't sure about bl-Hydrogen-amd64_20160710.iso because it says AMD and mine is intel.
More confident now after your recommendation so I will go ahead now and use that one.

itsme

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Re: Quick reassurance

Yes, 4Gb probably excessive, but I was given this machine so I'm using it to play with.

geekosupremo

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Re: Quick reassurance

I wasn't sure about bl-Hydrogen-amd64_20160710.iso because it says AMD and mine is intel.

The amd64 refers to the instruction set that the kernel is built against. It's the shorter version of x86-64 which was designed and popularized by AMD, and is the standard that all modern x86 based processors use. If you want a deeper look at the details you can read more about it here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

martix

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Re: Quick reassurance

^I can remember having the exact same issue some years ago. To be honest, I thought back then that this is just hilarious: There are two major processor manufacturers, intel and amd. Now i'm looking for the right iso and the one said "amd 64". I did not have amd. So I was looking further for the right one. Fortunately it was easy to find the explanation, but if someone is unexperienced with linux - or maybe with computers in general -, it's just against pure logic, to take an amd iso for an intel processor. Now I can laugh about myself back then, but these kind of things just happen sometimes (I also remember the question I asked myself long time ago: "Why on earth do I have to go to "battery", if i want to adjust the screen brightness?"  But I get the logic now     ).