detecting i386 or x86_64 in kickstart

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 19/02/07, Klaus Steden <klaus.steden at thomson.net> wrote:
> > Newbie-ish question... what exactly is the difference between i686 and
> > x86_64? I imagine athlon is specifically for AMD 64-bit processors?
> >
> One short answer is that a 32-bit CPU (i386 - Pentium, Athlon, etc.) uses
> 32-bit addressing, while a 64-bit CPU (x86_64 - Opteron, Itanium, etc.) uses
> 64-bit addressing -- meaning your OS and applications can address more than 4
> GB of memory at one time.

I know that much... my question was specifically about x86_64 and i686
(since I was under the impression that i686 also means a 64-bit
processor).

I imagine i686 covers a much wider range of CPUs, not all of which are 64-bit?

Binand