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sburris
April 30th, 2009, 06:03 PM
I would like to verify that my upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 is in a 64 bit mode. How do I verify?

mikewhatever
April 30th, 2009, 06:49 PM
Run uname -a in Terminal.

sburris
May 1st, 2009, 03:09 AM
Run uname -a in Terminal.

Mike:
I get the following message but am not sure what it tells me.
Please interpret.
Thanks,
Stan

2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

drs305
May 1st, 2009, 03:11 AM
The 64-bit version of ubuntu will produce a "uname -a" output like this:

Linux mycomputer 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Bruce S
May 1st, 2009, 04:40 AM
Run uname -a in Terminal.
I have been wondering about that, and now I know.
Many thanks .

sburris
May 1st, 2009, 02:38 PM
The 64-bit version of ubuntu will produce a "uname -a" output like this:

Allow me to expand on that thought. Since I upgraded from 8.10, rather than doing a clean install, that would mean that the 8.10 that I thought was 64 bit was really 32 bit.
Is that correct?
Further, in order to have 9.04 64 bit, I need to do a clean install of 9.04 64 bit rather than attempting another upgrade.
Is that correct?

drs305
May 1st, 2009, 03:24 PM
Allow me to expand on that thought. Since I upgraded from 8.10, rather than doing a clean install, that would mean that the 8.10 that I thought was 64 bit was really 32 bit.
Is that correct?
Further, in order to have 9.04 64 bit, I need to do a clean install of 9.04 64 bit rather than attempting another upgrade.
Is that correct?

Yes, both your observations are correct. Ubuntu will not upgrade from/to 32-bit to 64-bit via a network upgrade.