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Date:      Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:26:00 -0800
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com>
To:        shubha mr <shubha_mr@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP kernel installation 
Message-ID:  <200301070726.h077Q0Kl044268@axp.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from shubha mr <shubha_mr@yahoo.com>    of "Tue, 07 Jan 2003 06:18:49 GMT." <20030107061849.99157.qmail@web41215.mail.yahoo.com> 

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You need to recompile the kernel with the SMP options turned on, install
the kernel and reboot.  On a reasonable modern machine takes less than 10
minutes.

See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and the FreeBSD Handbook.

 - Mike

> Hi,
> For a multiprocessor machine,to install FreeBSD,is
> something extra needs to be done from what will be
> done to install the OS for a uni processor machine?I
> mean is there anything different to be installed for a
> symmetric multi processor machine?
> 
> thanks
> shubha
> 
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