Thanks for the advice. On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:45, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Dan Malvin wrote: > > I want to install Red Hat Linux AS on a computer with 512MB RAM and a > > single 933MHz PIII processor. The system board supports dual > > processors. If I decide to upgrade the memory and add a second > > (identical) processor later on, how will Red Hat AS handle that? > > It's trivial. Memory will be automatically used. You may want to > create a larger swap file when you first set it up though. > > For the second CPU, you've got a couple of options. You can install the > smp kernel now and just run it with a single cpu, or you can install and > run the uniprocessor kernel (which it will default to). When you add the > 2nd CPU, just install the latest smp kernel at that time, double check > your grub configuration to make sure you're going to run the right > kernel, and reboot. We did this with an old P III/500 and it took us a > lot longer to the get the BIOS issues straightened out than it took to > install the smp kernel. > > .../Ed > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Dan Malvin IT Department Dunwoody College of Technology 612.381.3304 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
