Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:10:04 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit? Message-ID: <b79ecaef1003161010i19722cacmf303dc353ea7b661@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003161702.o2GH2lIV054685@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201003161702.o2GH2lIV054685@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On 16 March 2010 17:02, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch > command? > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run > just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out > the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to build a > FreeBSD system on it. The script could intelligently ask for the > 64-bit or 32-bit trees if it could determine whether it was > running on the i86 or 64-bit system. [chris@amnesiac]~% sysctl hw.machine_arch hw.machine_arch: i386 [chris@amnesiac]~% > Thank you. You're welcome. Chris
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