Two questions from a daft old bugger who has lost his way :'(
One - is there a 'Net Install' iso download ?(I'm sure there used to be)
Two - How do I check whether I'm running 64bit or not?
I searched the internet and found one of the answers, didn't find the network iso
Quotehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/246007/how-to-determine-whether-a-given-linux-is-32-bit-or-64-bit
Try
Quoteuname -m
. It seems like the uname -m actually gives
x86_64 ==> 64-bit kernel
i686 ==> 32-bit kernel
Otherwise, not for the Linux kernel, but for the CPU, you type:
Quotecat /proc/cpuinfo
or:
Quotegrep flags /proc/cpuinfo
Under "flags" parameter, you will see various values: see "What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?" Among them, one is named lm: Long Mode (x86-64: amd64, also known as Intel 64, i.e. 64-bit capable)
lm ==> 64-bit processor
QuoteNote: you can have a 64-bit CPU with a 32-bit kernel installed
If you were running a 64 bit platform you would see x86_64 or something very similar in the output from
Quoteuname -a
To get your specific machine hardware name run
Quoteuname -m
You can also call
Quotegetconf LONG_BIT
which returns either 32 or 64
Quote from: The Black Pig on August 21, 2014, 11:34:34 AM
Two questions from a daft old bugger who has lost his way :'(
One - is there a 'Net Install' iso download ?(I'm sure there used to be)
Two - How do I check whether I'm running 64bit or not?
1. Not in Sparky at least. The installer runs locally. There were some aspects of downloading packages from the net (translation packages mostly), but none of it remains for the time being. Maybe in the new installer that we're planning, that will merge the old and the current one and add some more functionality.
2. "uname -m" should do the trick as @way12go suggested.
Furthermore: for determining if you're running a BIOS-booted or UEFI-booted environment refer to the contents of the /sys/firmware directory. If there's a "efi" subdirectory with content inside, then you're running an UEFI-booted environment. Hmm... I guess this will be useful information for the bug reporting tool (arch and either UEFI or not).
Thanks both of you :) ;) I'm running 64