[PLUG] Multi-Processor Support

["Aaron Crosman" <ACrosman@afsc.org>]

This morning my new toy was released to my care.  I'm about to start the
process of moving our mailman machine from an old desktop, to a retired
server.  The new server should provide more then enough power to handle
stupidly large lists.  It's an HP Netserver LC 2000.  Dual 1 GHz P3's. 2
18 GB SCSI HD. Oodles of RAM.

This is the first machine I've worked with that had multiple processors
(well, I set one up in college, but we noticed 3 months later we were
only using 1).  I booted with a Knoppix 3.6 CD and it detected all the
hardware fine, including both drives and both processors.  So I switched
to the SuSE 9.1 installer CD and the first thing it did was complain
that it could not work with one of the drives. Then I noticed it only
detected 1 Processor.  So now I'm looking for suggestions for suggested
next steps.

My inclination is to switch to Debian Sarge, but I don't know that it
will go any better.  I'm inclined towards defiant since our live web
server is also Debain and it'll limit the number of distributions I'm
trying to keep track of.  That said if I switch this machine to Debain
I'll only have 1 SuSE machine left that I plan to migrate between
servers in a week or two as well so I could easily switch at that point.

So:  Does is it relatively easy to install Debian with multi processor
support?  Is there a better distro (excepting RHE, which I have no
budget for) that you all would recommend (if so why is it better)?  Or
does someone that works with SuSE know of something foolish that I over
looked?  Everything I've read suggests that YAST should just work, and
it's not likely to be convinced if it fails.

Thanks
Aaron
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