Mandrake is pretty good. I believe it will detect it and give you two options to choose at boot time. One for Uni and one for multi processor support. -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of pavan Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:16 AM To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: linux on multiprocessor system hello all!! 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? regards, pavan. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/