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 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.4 - Release Date: 3/1/2005