Clonezilla-which Cpu Architecture To Choose?

Hello everyone, my first post here...

I am not brilliant with computers, For a lot of people on this forum this stuff will be basic but I am definitely pushing my own personal skills envelope. It's my first time doing this and would massively appreciate any help people may offer to give me a chance of getting it right.

I am trying to make a disc image of my 2.33 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 using Clonezilla. I am running Win10 64bit

I am about to make the bootable usb key and I need to download the right ISO for my processor from Clonezilla but am still not sure despite a fair bit of googling.

I have been asked to give my Processor Architecture before I can go ahead and get the correct ISO

the choices I have are

i586, amd64, or i686

I am thinking I should choose amd64, as my machine runs 32 and 64 bit programs, but this is largely guesswork.

I understand i586 is for single core single processor machines so it probably won't be that one.

Can anyone help me with this choice?

Once I have saved the disc image I intend to install it on a new drive with higher capacity, is there anything else I need to be doing to my source or target drive to ensure the target drive boots? I believe issues are quite common.

I also understand that once the image is restored, despite it being put onto a larger drive it will be in a partition the same size as my original image, is it straightforward to change the size of the partition to include the newly available space?

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help, I usually chat to the tech in the computer shop about stuff like this but sadly there are no computer places open round here since lockdown.

Cheers

Pete

 

i was not sure either, so i thought it would be good for me to also know.
here is more information than is necessary: also, your initial thought seems correct. toodles.

from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/54296/difference-between-the-i386-download-and-the-amd64

amd64 refers to the architecture. AMD was the first to create a 64-bit CPU, so it was named this at the time, and the name stuck. It seems a little confusing, but amd64 just means 64-bit.
so, yes, you can install amd64 bit to Intel 64 bit processor. AMD invented x86-64 bit instruction set processor so the name is just a tribute to AMD.

from
https://serverfault.com/questions/610308/x86-i386-i686-amd64-i5-i7-archtecture-processor-confusion

AMD64 is the name of a 64 bit architecture designed by AMD to succeed x86. At the time AMD64 managed to be more successful than the 64 bit architecture marketed by Intel. This was due to AMD64 CPUs being cheaper, backward compatible, and consuming less power. Eventually Intel realized that they had to start making AMD compatible CPUs to remain competitive. They would however not market them as such, which is a major reason why some synonyms for AMD64 has come into existence.

from
https://myonlineusb.wordpress.com/2...-difference-between-i386-i486-i586-i686-i786/

i586
 -> Intel i586 was released in 1993. It was brand named Pentium. Also called P5, meant to be the 5th generation of x86 micro-architecture. In 1996, Pentium MMX was released based on this processor. It added new MMX instructions.
AMD K5 was released in 1996. It was AMD’s first x86 processor to be developed entirely in-house.
The K5 lacked MMX instructions, which Intel had started giving with this genre.
NOTE: Packages that are compiled for i586 architecture, are compatible with i586, i686 & i786 architectures.

i686
 -> Intel i686 was released in 1995. It was brand named Pentium Pro. Also called P6, meant to be the 6th generation of x86 micro-architecture.

AMD K6 was released in 1997. It included MMX instructions and an FPU.
It was complemented by AMD K6-2 in 1998, which introduced AMD’s 3D-Now!
AMD released AMD K6-III was released in1999

NOTE: Packages that are compiled for i686 architecture, is compatible with i686 & i786 architectures.

 

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated...

Pete

 

An easier imaging software is redo - https://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/