Hi, pavan wrote: > I am going to install mandrake 9.1 with 2.4.29 kernel on a dual > processor system.do i need to compile kernel such that it supports > multiprocessors or it will detect everything? Download a newer version of Mandrake (like 2005): it will be shipped with a newer version of the kernel which will work nicely with SMP systems. By the way, this mailing-list is dedicated to kernel _programming_, not to distribution-related questions. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/