On Monday 29 September 2025 01:21:08 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> mick.crane composed on 2025-09-29 18:07 (UTC+0100):
>
> > I never really knew what this meant but liked the sound of it.
> >
> > "32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
Windoze 95
> > [on top of] a 16 bit patch
msdos
> > to an 8 b
On 9/29/25 9:19 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 05:22:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
My underlying question was explicitly the character of the installed
processor.
When you ask…
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
How do I find if the installed
On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 05:26:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Underlying my question was the assumption that when a processor was
referred to as 32 or 64 bit, it was a reference to the width of the
data bus.
Not really, which is why this was a weird/misleading/confusing question.
A "bus" is
On 9/28/25 8:12 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:45:56 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 9/28/25 7:23 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote:
I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
I need to know the data
On 28.09.2025 16:12, Robert Heller wrote:
But the results of uname is difinitive. A 64-bit kernel won't run on a 32-bit
CPU, although a 32-bit kernel will run on a 64-bit processor. So if the
*kernel* is 64-bit, the processor is 64-bit. It is possible to have both
32-bit and 64-bit user-mode pro
At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:15:30 -0400 Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>
> > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
>
> Others replied already.
>
> > How do I discover the CPU's bus width?
>
> That's probably not what you want to know.
> My crystal ball tells me that you probably want to know w
Michael Stone composed on 2025-09-28 14:42 (UTC-0400):
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 14:30:47 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>>Why download or burn anything before knowing whether it could possibly suit
>>your
>>needs?
> Because downloading a minimal install image will take a heck of a lot
> less time
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> I need to know the data bus width.
>
> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
This is not reliable because a user can edit the file. See b
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 02:30:47PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Why download or burn anything before knowing whether it could possibly suit your
needs?
Because downloading a minimal install image will take a heck of a lot
less time and be a heck of a lot more reliable than coming up with silly
w
Michael Stone composed on 2025-09-28 14:18 (UTC-0400):
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 12:40:19 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>>unbootable installed OS != not bootable/installable
> What's your point? If you boot a debian install image you'll find out
> whether debian will run on it with absolutely no ne
Greg composed on 2025-09-28 16:17 (UTC):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 15:25:49 -, Greg wrote:
dpkg --print-architecture (userland)
>>> This is the best answer, also
>>>dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
>>> to identify whether multiarch is configured.
>> Best on
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:01:05AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
If it's an IBM compatible PC or laptop, boot into BIOS setup. Odds are, if
you see EFI mentioned anywhere, the CPU is 64bit, but somewhere at least
there will be some indicator of bus width.
There were definitely 32 bit x86 machines w
On 2025-09-28, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
>> I need to know the data bus width.
>>
>> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
>>
>> How do I find if
On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> I need to know the data bus width.
>
> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
>
> How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
> H
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:01:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> # lscpu | grep mode
> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
I'm guessing THIS is what the OP really wanted. The rest is noise.
(This use of this command new to me; I've never seen that particular
data point before.)
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 08:23:28 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
>
> uname -a
>
> This will tell you the kernel version, including the bus width
> (Note: it is possible to install a 32-b
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> I need to know the data bus width.
>
> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
>
> How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
$ uname -a
Linux ant 6.16.8+deb14-amd64 #
On 9/28/25 7:23 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote:
I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
I need to know the data bus width.
I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
How do I find if the
On 9/28/25 7:12 AM, alain williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
I need to know the data bus width.
I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
How do I find if
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 01:12:27PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
>
> $ file /bin/true
No doubt good enough for the OP who is not going to be part way through
a multiarch cr
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:29:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > How do I discover the CPU's bus width?
> >
> > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Put the CPU model name into a search engine.
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At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> I need to know the data bus width.
>
> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
>
> How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
> H
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> I need to know the data bus width.
>
> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version .
>
> How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit
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