Find out if long-mode is supported by you CPU, for example. $ grep -o lm /proc/cpuinfo -- Thanks, Chengwei On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:46:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Several years ago a friend, who owns his own business, gave me one of his > old servers because he knows that computers are my hobby. It's been > sitting around my basement since then, but it has finally worked its way > to the top of my "to do" list. I just fired it up for the first time > yesterday. Basically, I am trying to determine if this is a 64-bit- > capable machine or not, and I can't tell. Here's what the BIOS setup > program reports for the CPU: > > Boot Strap Processor > Installed Speed: 2.40 GHz > Socket Name: BSP > Manufacturer: GenuineIntel > Version: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) > CPUID: 0F27 > L2 Cache: 512 KB > > I consulted Wikipedia's web page on Intel Processors > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors), > but was unable to find a processor in the list which met > all the criteria (Xeon in the name, speed, and L2 cache). > > The machine has a Phoenix BIOS, version 1.28, dated 05/22/2003. > That may help narrow things down. (For example, it is unlikely > that a processor introduced in 2008 would be given a BIOS dated > in 2003.) Any ideas? Oh, one other thing. Hyper-Threading was > enabled in the BIOS, suggesting that, as viewed by an operating > system, the machine has at least two CPUs. But that may not be > 100% reliable. The machine has 1 GB of RAM installed. (Two > 512M SIMMs and 2 empty SIMM slots.) > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 1377377155.557358.1345513590091.JavaMail.root@md01.wow.synacor.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 1377377155.557358.1345513590091.JavaMail.root@md01.wow.synacor.com
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