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

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] TEST for 64-bit

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?

>> 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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