On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 09:09, Ido Yellin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm creating a custom RH9 kickstart install CD, and I have a question > regarding the kernel-smp RPM. > > First, just to make sure I understand correctly - on multi-cpu machines > I'm supposed to install the kernel-smp instead of the kernel RPM, right? Actually, you usually install both the SMP and the UP kernels--just in case. > Ideally, I'd like to make one CD that will match both one-cpu and > multi-cpu machines, i.e. when booting the machine with the CD, if the > machine has one cpu, the kernel will be installed, and if it's > multi-cpu, the kernel-smp will be installed. Is this possible? If so, > how do I do that? It should just work out of the box. Anaconda is smart enough to recognize when it is running on a SMP machine, and install the correct kernel, just like it recognizes that it is on a PII+ and installs the i686 kernel instead of the i386 one. Forrest --
