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Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

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Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

#1 Post by Peter_M_Armstrong »

The gparted site says that gparted is usable on x86 systems.
My system -- with *no* OS on it yet -- will be AMD64 based.
If gparted won't work in this environment, what other pre-OS-
install program will?
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Re: Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

#2 Post by dlu2021 »

By x86 and x86-64, they are referring to the processor instruction set type of your CPU, either 32 bit or 64 bit respectively, which are used by both Intel and AMD, not the type of OS that you want to install.

FYI, the Debian installer already has a built in partitioner that you can use, so you don't need GParted at all.
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Re: Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

#3 Post by pwzhangzz »

All the computers that we procured in the past 5 years are all AMD64 (Ryzen) based. And we are using gparted all the time. No problem whatsoever. Guaranteed :!:

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Re: Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

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If gparted won't work in this environment, what other pre-OS-
install program will?
fdisk, gdisk, parted ... all CLI, cfdisk ... curses, but for GUI there's gnome disks.

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#5 Post by stevepusser »

To be pedantic, the "x86-64" architecture used by modern Intel/AMD/maybe others? CPUs was developed by AMD, not Intel. Intel was pushing their own 64-bit architecture which never caught on, and eventually adopted AMD's. So it was probably called amd64 by Debian from the start, and the name has stuck.
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Re: Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

#6 Post by cherock »

pwzhangzz wrote: 2022-10-04 17:05AMD
What is an AMD64 (Reyzen) ????

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Re: Partitioning a new AMD system via gparted

#7 Post by happyfeet8827 »

As I understand it apparently the Linux kernel developers have baked AMD processor and PU drivers into the kernel so that we as the users don't have to worry about killing ourselves looking for and debugging issues with faulty proprietary drivers. Further, I'd recommend that the original poster try a program like darks Boot and Nuke(DBAN).

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