[Novalug] 32-bit or 64-bit processor

Jason P. Thomas jthomasp@gmualumni.org
Mon May 12 09:36:42 EDT 2014


On 05/04/2014 08:26 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 13. Yes, 13.  I need to upgrade.
>
> Supposedly if I use the following command:
>
> grep flags /proc/cpuinfo
>
> and it returns anything showing " lm ", then the CPU can support 64-bit.
>
> Alternately:
>
> lscpu |grep |CPU op-mode" could be used, and this in fact does show I can support 64-bit.
>
> So, believe I'm GTG on installed Fedora 20.1
>
> TIA,
>
> Jay
>
>
To be absolutely sure, you could always boot a livecd with a 64-bit 
kernel.  I don't know about you, but I have a number of different livecd 
rescue distributions lying around.  Most of them have 32 and 64 bit kernels.

--Another Jay



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