John Rowan wrote:
> I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I went out and
> purchased Redhat Linux v 5.2 and installed it on a generic 90Mhz
> Pentium. It was okay. I came across a deal at www.compgeeks.com for
> a dual PentiumPro bare bones system on an Intel PR440FX system board.
> I went for 128MB RAM and a 10,000 Seagate Cheetah to round out this
> system. Initially I installed Microsoft Windows2000 server but it was
> so slow it was rediculous. Windows98 ran much quicker but only
> utilized one of the processors. I wanted to see how Linux SMP would
> perform on the same platform so I fdisked the drive and ran the
> install. Windows2000 took over 100 minutes to install (and that was
> after having to install Windows98). Linux installed in about 12
> minutes! On the PentiumPro with one processor it's much quicker than
> the 90Mhz Pentium (the 10,000 RPM Cheetah probably helps here
> too). Long story short, I'm a novice with Linux. I've gone through
> the manual several times but can't find out how to recompile the
> kernel to take advantage of the second processor. Would someone be
> kind enough to either forward me instructions or point me to a readme
> to take the next step?
Also be sure to say yes to config_smp and to config_trc for your smp
system. And if you
configure anything as a module, be sure to also do a `make modules` and
`make modules_install`.
Jan
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