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RE: [PLUG] Multi-Processor Support
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I don't remember for sure whether it listed 1 or multiple CPUs on
the install screen when I've installed on multi-CPU machines. So I can't
say for sure whether that's a problem, but again I haven't had it install
the wrong kernel on the 3 or 4 SMP machines I've tried. The partition
thing is more disturbing -- I haven't had that problem before. You
definitely got to the manual partitioning screen, right? I think you have
to click "custom" or "expert" or whatever 2 or 3 times for it to finally
allow you to completely customize the drive partitions.
Aaron
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Aaron Crosman wrote:
> I didn't go through the whole process. When it lay out the system
> details at the start it only listed 1 processor, so I assumed (probably
> badly) that it wouldn't install a SMP kernel unless it indicated that it
> had found more then one. I was also concerned because YAST could not
> replace the partition table on one of the drives. Since this machine
> was previously a Win2K server, I'm not so much interested in the
> previous partitioning scheme.
>
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Mulder
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:54 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Multi-Processor Support
>
> In general, SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 work fine on multi-processor
> machines. The installer probably doesn't use them both, but after boot
> you should have an SMP kernel installed. Did you go through the full
> install and reboot and it still didn't have an SMP kernel? What do you
> have in /boot? Worst case, you can probably install the SMP kernel RPM
> by hand to get it running.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Aaron Crosman wrote:
> > 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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