From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 08:55:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B399516A400 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E1BF13C494 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2007 08:55:04 -0000 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sNVUhZ3dsnRpskL3kV5ujA5y2iiONwaO8G6eKU+ 3ARw== Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:54:59 +0100 To: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" , Brian From: "Andreas Rudisch" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <45D2004C.8060806@sonicboom.org> <57d710000702131042w5f981cf4u70e0be62797be168@mail.gmail.com> <20070213142748.611D.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> <45D21961.9050109@sonicboom.org> <499c70c0702132244w1489d724h7422ebc5158ede44@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <499c70c0702132244w1489d724h7422ebc5158ede44@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: User Questions , "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" Subject: Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:55:06 -0000 On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:44:57 +0100, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > Why shall you do the double job by installing the FreeBSD, then > reinstall it after adding SMP option to kernel? Couldn't we get > FreeBSD to install the right kernel based on the number of the cpu(s) > in the system? I recently installed FreeBSD 6.2 from scratch and the installer automagically installed the SMP-kernel. So this feature is already there. Andreas