another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version
if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:47:10 kashani, vous avez écrit : > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Sometime in the last month someone posted (in a thread that went wildly > > OT) a definite way to determine if an Intel cpu is 32 or 64 bit. > > Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore. > > > > It involved checking the cpu-family, model and flags fields in cpuinfo. > > > > Could that same kind soul please repost the info? And if possible the > > same for AMD? > > cat /proc/cpuinfo and look for lm, which stands for long mode, under the > flags. I'm pretty sure that works for Intel and AMD. > > kashani
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