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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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