Re: [Hampshire] Basic kernel question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:13:26PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Forgive the ignorance - I'm a bit tired (young child teething these
> last few nights). Trying to work out whether I did install a 64 bit
> kernel on a box I've not played with in months. I've done uname -a
> and I get 686 as part of the returned string - but nothing with
> x86_64 - that means it's a 32-bit kernel right?


uname -a will tell you what the kernel is. If you've got a 32-bit
kernel, everything else will be 32 bit, too.

> Isn't there something like LAST_BIT I could check but I can't
> remember what the command is?


I don't recall seeing that one.

Hugo.

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