Installing a new kernel

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:58:33PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> However, I don't know which processor this machine has! I assume its
> an AMD because that's what's printed on the fan. But I'd like a
> sure-fire method of knowing exactly which kernel I need. How would one
> go about determining that?

You can do

cat /proc/cpuinfo

E.g., my current machine has the info below.

You need to be a little careful with /proc/cpuinfo, because
it reports 2N processors if you're running N processors with
hyperthreading. I'm sure there are other caveats as well,
but cpuinfo is a good tool to use.

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 15
model		: 5
model name	: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
stepping	: 10
cpu MHz		: 1994.317
cache size	: 1024 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: yes
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 3591.37


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