Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:12:34 +0200 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit? Message-ID: <a0777e081003161312ia110416h1b9e5a98e7a9fb65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003161702.o2GH2lIV054685@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201003161702.o2GH2lIV054685@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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> =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. > Either sysctl -n hw.machine_arch or uname -m (which is POSIX compliant)
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