what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000
"Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up....
> is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user
> data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the
> iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD)
> and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this.

What's confusing? 

i386 is for 386 compatible processors - a 32-bit OS for 32-bit
processors, which is therefore limited to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) without the
PAE workaround.

amd64 is for AMD 64 compatible processors operated in 64-bit mode.