From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 10 20:16: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (80-MADR-X31.libre.retevision.es [62.82.41.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8395937BADC for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 20:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id BDCC136FA; Wed, 10 May 2000 21:54:49 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question re:dual processors References: <20000510.16461600@mis.configured.host> From: Simon J Mudd Date: 10 May 2000 21:54:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: smeacham@intcon.net's message of "10 May 2000 21:14:45 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org smeacham@intcon.net ("Steven D. Meacham") writes: > I need to know if there is special configuration required to > support=20= dual processors in FreeBSD. Yes. > I'm installing 4.0-Release according to=20= the install|options > screens. > The box has an Intel PR440FX mainboard=20= with dual pentium pro > 180Mhz processors. Linux requires a kernal=20 rebuild to turn on > support. so does FreeBSD, although this is something which surprised me to be a relatively easy process. You need to look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf copy GENERIC to a new name and edit this text file which need to show the SMP configuration. Look at the FreeBSD handbook which gives reasonably straightforward instructions on the process. I'm no expert, also coming from linux. The FreeBSD environment takes getting used to, but I've got to the stage where I can do the make world and use cvsup to update the sources. Interesting experience. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message