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 <r...@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@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 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
