linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] TEST for 64-bit

On 04/27/2016 09:42 AM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1355@gmail.com
> [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > On 04/26/2016 11:34 PM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies]
> wrote:
> >> Told ya. Ark is your friend.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://ark.intel.com/m/products/83538/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3250-3M-Cache-3_20-GHz#@product/specifications
> >>
> >> It's 64 bit.
> > So why wouldn't the 64-bit LiveDVD boot? Was the physical medium just
> bad?
>
> That is entirely possible, and is the reason why I stopped burning
> CD/DVDs ages ago. They're too unreliable.
>
> First thing you want to do after downloading an ISO image is run
> md5sum or sha1sum against it, and compare the output to the sums
> provided by your download source. Any deviation means your download
> is bad, your ISO is bad, or has been compromised or corrupted.
>
> I've found making live USB sticks to be a lot better, because they're
> faster to build, easier to boot from, less prone to failure during the
> creation process, easy to replicate and replace as well.
>
> I don't recall if you ever said what Live CD you're actually using...
> which distro was it again?
>
Gentoo.
> >> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Michael Sullivan msulli1355@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:msulli1355@gmail.com> [LINUX_Newbies]
> >> <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <mailto:LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 04/26/2016 11:02 PM, cs@zip.com.au wrote:
> >> > Don't "uname -p" or "uname -m" tell you anything interesting?
> >> The uname -m just told me i686 and the -p told me Intel(R) Pentium(R)
> >> CPU G3250 @ 3.20GHz.
> >>
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
> >> >
> >> > On 26Apr2016 22:42, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 04/26/2016 10:34 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >> >>> No. It's an Intel Dual Core. I don't have a GUI installed on
> >> it yet,
> >> >>> and every time I try to scp something over from there to here I
> >> put in
> >> >>> the password and it says "Agent pid" and some number. How do I get
> >> >>> passed that?
> >> >>> On 04/26/2016 10:17 PM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies]
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>>> Also, pretty much every modern x86 CPU is 64 bit. The only 32 bit
> >> >>>> ones I
> >> >>>> know of are ARM chips or the cheapest Atom chips.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com
> >> >>>> <mailto:dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Fastest way would be to just look up the processor model
> >> on the
> >> >>>> internet. If it's an Intel chip, search the Ark
> >> >>>> (http://ark.intel.com). Not sure what AMDs cpu db is.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, Michael Sullivan
> >> msulli1355@gmail.com
> >> >>>> [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Is there a Linux test that I can do to see if my
> >> computer is
> >> >>>> 64-bit? I
> >> >>>> got a new one in today, and the shop that built it for
> >> me says
> >> >>>> that it's
> >> >>>> 64-bit, but the 64-bit LiveDVD I burned won't boot. The
> >> >>>> LiveDVD did
> >> >>>> suggest that my kernel should be 64-bit (64-bit kernel was
> >> >>>> turned ON in
> >> >>>> menuconfig), but the kernel failed to build with that
> >> option,
> >> >>>> possibly
> >> >>>> because all the other files on the system were
> >> 32-bit. I'm
> >> >>>> just
> >> >>>> wondering is it, or isn't it?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>
> >> >> My ~/.bashrc file at this moment says:
> >> >>
> >> >> # .bashrc
> >> >>
> >> >> # User specific aliases and functions
> >> >> alias ls="ls --color"
> >> >> alias ll='ls -lh'
> >> >> alias ssh='ssh -Y -C'
> >> >> alias useflag='grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc -e'
> >> >> alias su="/bin/su"
> >> >> export CPATH=/usr/kde/3.3/include/:$CPATH
> >> >> eval `ssh-agent`
> >> >>
> >> >> # Source global definitions
> >> >> if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
> >> >> . /etc/bashrc
> >> >> fi
> >> >>
> >> >> #export
> >> CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/home/michael/projects/java/myFantasy:."
> >> >> export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] '
> >> >> export PATH="$PATH:/home/michael/.bin"
> >> >> #export CVSROOT=/var/cvsroot
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't HAVE a ~/.bash_profile.
> >> >>
> >> >>
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> >> >> Posted by: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com>
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