[Centos] Installing a second processor

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Nigel Kendrick wrote:

>I have Centos-3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 1300 (PIII-450) - it's a dual
>processor board but with a single processor currently fitted. I have just
>purchased a second PIII-450 processor on eBay (for ?10!!) - can I just drop
>it in the system or do I need to reinstall the OS or reconfigure anything
>software-wise?
>  
>

Just change your grub.conf or lilo.conf to use the SMP kernel by default 
and reboot.  Keep the single processor kernel in the conf file as a 
fallback in case you have problems with the SMP kernel. 

It should literally be a 5 minute upgrade.

Cheers,

-- 
Chris Mauritz
chrism@xxxxxxxxx




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