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

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] TEST for 64-bit

If you go into the BIOS on start-up, you can if out there.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:02 AM, cs@zip.com.au [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Don't "uname -p" or "uname -m" tell you anything interesting?

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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