[Novalug] Mint question
Don E. Groves, Jr.
dgrovesjr@gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 11:39:40 EST 2013
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 09:10:05PM -0500, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > Previously I was told that a way to overcome the problem of having no
> idea
> > how to get around the fact that I didn't know my password was to lay
> hands
> > on a boot disk. I now have two of them, one for booting to a 32-bit
> > version, the other to a 64-bit version. How do I find out which I have?
> >
>
> Here are 4 possible ways, all looking for something like x86_64 in the
> output.
>
> $ ls /boot
>
{: to many versions of kernels installed to list, need to clean the system
up sometime. LARGE Harddrives tend to make us lazy <GRIN> :}
most end in generic or generic-pae
> $ uname -s
>
output: linux
perhaps you mean
uname -a
> output: Linux Pavilion 3.2.0-36-generic-pae #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8
> 22:01:06 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> $ cat /etc/*release*
>
output:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.04.1 LTS, Precise Pangolin"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.1 LTS)"
VERSION_ID="12.04"
> $ file /bin/ls
output:
bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24,
BuildID[sha1]=0x83531f308f1fa18221be53eaf399303400c14638, stripped
> jl
>
So which do I have installed?
Oh BTW yes the processor is a AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60
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Don E. Groves, Jr.
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