hardware inspection

Greg Wojcieszczuk greg at unixos.org
Tue Aug 2 23:32:56 UTC 2011


Hi,
On Linux box run something like:

grep -w lm /proc/cpuinfo

If it returns line with lm register listed it means your CPU is 64-bit 
capable.
lm stands for long mode.

Cheers and regards,

Greg Wojcieszczuk

On 08/03/2011 12:15 AM, Victor Radu wrote:
> Hi, i have a Dell box dual boot machine  running RH5 32bit and WXP32 bit ,
> how can i determine if the hardware can support a 64bit OS ?
>




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