What is my system?

[Shutdown]

Ok I feel really embarrased to ask this.

But how do I found out if my system is an i386 or i686 system?

I have an Intel Core 2 1.8ghz processor.

[goude]

Check the cpuinfo file. It should tell you the info you want.

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | head -1

[techieMoe]

Ok I feel really embarrased to ask this.

But how do I found out if my system is an i386 or i686 system?

I have an Intel Core 2 1.8ghz processor.

It's likely no one who bought a computer since the early 90s still has a 386. Your Core 2 Duo is actually neither of those. It's a 64-bit x86_64 architecture. It can run software designed for all of the following:

i386, i486, i586, i686, X64/X86_64

For more details on this, here's a tutorial:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/per...a64-em64t.html

And for more general questions:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ead-first.html

[Shutdown]

Check the cpuinfo file. It should tell you the info you want.

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | head -1

Yeah that's what I checked earlier today. Doesn't say all it says is this:


Model Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86ghz

[Shutdown]

It's likely no one who bought a computer since the early 90s still has a 386. Your Core 2 Duo is actually neither of those. It's a 64-bit x86_64 architecture. It can run software designed for all of the following:

i386, i486, i586, i686, X64/X86_64

For more details on this, here's a tutorial:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/per...a64-em64t.html

And for more general questions:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ead-first.html

ahhh! fantastic. I've been looking for madwifi drivers and I saw a lot of x86_64 but not a lot of i386. Now I know what to download. Thanks!

[Lazydog]

Easy there. What system did you install? 32bit or 64bit?
While you can get 32 bit to run on a 64 bit system the reverse is not true.

I could be way off base here, it has been a while since I had the 64bit version installed on my machine, but I believe you can use 'uname -a' to see if you have 32 or 64 bit version installed. I believe when the 64 bit is installed it will show '86_64' Again I could be way off base on this one as it has been a while.