[ubuntu-uk] uname -a for 32 bit os on 64 bit cpu

[Joe Barker]

I find running uname -m is easier for determining whether it's a 64
bit machine or not.

Generally though, you just need to look out for x86_64 which is on a
64 bit machine, and i686 or similar for 32 bit.

On 14 Nov 2011, at 18:17, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 14/11/11 17:53, John Levin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm writing a bit of documentation, and am having trouble with uname.
>> What does uname -a produce for a 32 bit operating system running on a 64
>> bit cpu? If anyone is running such a system, if they could cut & paste
>> the output, I'd be very much obliged.
>>
>> PS: Thanks to Alan Lord & Simon Greenwood for their replies to my
>> question (from ages ago) about installing non-deb apps. I was having a
>> terminology problem!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
> Okay I'm running Mint 11, so it might be slightly different output to Ubuntu (I haven't fired up my media PC and my server is running Ubuntu Server 64-Bit), but hope this helps:
>
> rob at aspire ~ $ uname -a
> Linux aspire 2.6.38-11-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 22:21:04 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> (It's running on a Core 2 Duo with 4GB Ram)
>
> Rob
>
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