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Re: 7.2 for 2 CPU i686 (was Re: libc.so.6 with link time reference)



Hava Lester wrote:

> There doesn't seem to be a version of 7.2 for i686 architechture on the huji ftp site (am I wrong?)
> so I've been rummaging around the internet.  I came across a comment:
> "This package includes a SMP version of the Linux kernel. It is required only on machines with two
> or more CPUs,...."
> so it got me wondering: do I have to look for a different kind of kernel for my machine? I would
> have thought 
> that the regular kernel could handle 2 CPUs as well??

You have to install the regular version of 7.2 and then rebuild the
kernel to inlcude SMP support. Like all Red-Hat releases, there is a
kernel update available. Install it BEFORE you try to build an SMP
kernel.

Geoff.

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