[wplug] Dual boot question

[Coutch, Robert]

The RH8 I have only supported smp on i686 (or compatable) systems.

I installed it on a dual Pentium (133 MHz dual processor) IBM system but got
the i386 kernel.

I havent built a linux kernel yet so I wasn't sure if I could do it.
Go to read more howto's first.

I did get freeBSD to compile for dual i586's but the dang thing is so slow
I'm getting tired of fooling around with it. 

I remember when it was state of the art with its dual 133 MHz pentiums, it's
128Mb of FP RAM, the 3 1Gb SCSI drives and its DDS2 tape drive.

Ahh the good old days.

Now I'm going to the basement to turn on my CP/80 desktop machine that STILL
WORKS too.

-Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanco, Donald [mailto:VANCOD at pios.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:12 PM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: RE: [wplug] Dual boot question


John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in April Doug Dominick assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
>> Group,
>> 
>>     I would like to setup my workstation to dual boot RH Linux and
>> W2000 Pro.  I am currently only running W2000 Pro.  I have a 73 GB
>> drive with 3 partitions.  The first one is 8GB for the W2000 Pro OS,
>> the second is 2GB for swap and the last partition uses the rest of
>> the space for data. I have plenty of room for Linux on the third
>> partition.  I will resize that partition to leave 10GB of
>> unallocated space.  My question here is; does Linux have to be
>> loaded within a certain range of the beginning of the hard drive, or
>> will it load properly if I follow the steps I listed above?  My
>> second question is; do I have to do anything special to take
>> advantage of dual processors?  I appreciate any help you can offer. 
> 
> hey doug.
> 
> i'm pretty sure you wont have a problem with the location of redhat
> on the hard drive. redhat will most likely detect your two cpu's. i
> read a post on slashdot where a guy had a dual system that was not
> detected by redhat 8 but was detected by redhat 9.
	I've /never/ heard of a system not having it's multiple CPUs
detected by 8.0, but then, if you can't believe a poster to /. who can you
believe?

> i don't think i've
> had a problem with redhat detecting mine. if for some reason it does
> not then you should be able to install the smp kernel rpm's 
	Actually - that's a good point.  If you select to "Manually install
packages" (under RH) you'll be able to look and see if the installer has
already detected and selected the SMP kernel to be installed for you.  
	For that matter, you can hop over to vc2 and just cat out
/proc/cpuinfo

Don
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