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07-16-2004	#1 (permalink)
Plato Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: France Posts: 21	Processor Architecture - How do you identify it? This may seem to be the ultimate noob question (and probably is), but how do I identify a computer's processor architecture in order to DL the right distro? How can I know if it's x86, or amd64, or something else? Is there a website referencing these things?

07-16-2004	#2 (permalink)
godspear Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: /world/europe/sweden/örebro Posts: 37	In windows: klick the icon saying: This Computer Then select "System inforation" in the table to the left. Maybe you can see what processor you have there. Any processor from Intel are called x86.

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Plato Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: France Posts: 21	How about if your on AMD? It didn't show up in the system info.

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monkey8 Linux User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 256	Godspear, doesn't work with winXP. Plato: you're x86 compatible. x86 is an an architecture, where processor A may be an i586 its x86 compatible. __________________ --monkey

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sunnylearns Linux Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Location: Chennai, India Posts: 116	Code: dmesg \| grep CPU gives you information about ur cpu __________________ NEVER stop/pause Journey of Learning -Travelling Soldier ( Me )

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Giro Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: England Posts: 1,219	Or cat /proc/cpuinfo

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dan@george Linux Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 246	Those last two are for Linux, so they won't work for you. In Windows XP, right-click "My Computer", go to Properties --> Hardware --> Device Manager --> Processors. This will tell you the name of your processor. Most likely it's Intel, in which case it's x86-compatible. __________________ Situations arise because of the weather, And no kinds of love are better than others.

07-17-2004	#8 (permalink)
Plato Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: France Posts: 21	Oki doki, I've tested it out by running x86-compatible liveCD distros and it works. Now to get that damn wifi working. Thanks to all those who helped, even with the linux prompts, those'll come in handy.

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