Steve, I have just recently upgraded to a BP6 Motherboard and installed Mandrake 7.0, followed the instructions at this web site: http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm under the 'ULTRA66' section, installed without a hitch on a drive connected to the UDMA/66, no problem :) It did detect SMP and installed the proper kernel, detected my SoundBlaster Live! and USR External 56K modem also. Christopher wrote: > > Howdy people, first off - Mandrake is my fav distro and I've tried quite a > few - bravo! Now, to my prob. Does the installer for Mandrake (I have 7.0) > detect for SMP support or is that something I add after installation? My > hardware is a Abit BP6 with two 500 mhz Celerons, 128 megs of RAM, VooDoo 3 > 3000 AGP, ect. If it would work in SMP mode, I'd be very very happy :-) > Thnx! > > ~Christopher Yes, 7.0 will detect the SMP automatically during installation and install an SMP kernel. No worries there. 7.0 doesn't, out of the box, work the with UDMA/66 interfaces on the BP6 board though. It'll make a boot disk during installation for you, but it won't let you install on those drives. A bit annoying, since the patches for the HPT366 interface have been available since the 6.1 days... - -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Wike UNIX System Administration FDAO Productivity Infrastructure Texas Instruments, Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regular Mail: 7839 Churchill Way Phone: (972) 917-1252 M/S 3984 Fax: (972) 917-3891 Dallas, TX 75251 Cell PH:(972) 740-7748 E-Mail my Cell Phone: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or: http://www.mobile.att.net/mc/pager_show.cgi ----------------------------------------------------------------------
