[Novalug] Mint question

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sun Jan 20 11:44:05 EST 2013


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:26:14AM -0500, Jon LaBadie 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
> 
>   $ uname -s

Correction noted by Don Groves,

    $ uname -a

Thanks Don

> 
>   $ cat /etc/*release*
> 
>   $ file /bin/ls
> 
> jl
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Jon H. LaBadie                  novalugml@jgcomp.com
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