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Re: 7.2 for 2 CPU i686 (was Re: libc.so.6 with link time reference)
- To: hava18(at-nospam)hadassah.org.il (Hava Lester)
- Subject: Re: 7.2 for 2 CPU i686 (was Re: libc.so.6 with link time reference)
- From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(at-nospam)bfr.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:36:46 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il (guy keren), linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <3BE01A82.BEDF9400@hadassah.org.il> from "Hava Lester" at Oct 31, 2001 05:36:34 PM
- Reply-To: gmendelson(at-nospam)bloomberg.com
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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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