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Installation & Upgrade => Installation => Topic started by: The Black Pig on August 21, 2014, 11:34:34 AM

Title: Basic Installation ? (Solved)
Post by: 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?
Title: Re: Basic Installation ?
Post by: way12go on August 21, 2014, 12:43:40 PM
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
Title: Re: Basic Installation ?
Post by: way12go on August 21, 2014, 12:49:49 PM
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
Title: Re: Basic Installation ?
Post by: MoroS on August 21, 2014, 01:04:30 PM
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).
Title: Re: Basic Installation ?
Post by: The Black Pig on August 21, 2014, 06:12:16 PM
Thanks both of you     :) ;)            I'm running 64