[rescue] RE: WinNT/2K/98/95 "up times"

[Ken Hansen]

Tee-hee - RPMFIND is downloading kernel-smp-2.2.19-7.0.1.i386.rpm now,
should just *install it*, then I should only have to reboot.

Thanks all,

Ken

Steve Pacenka wrote:
> 
> Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> > I have a PPro Linux box (Mandrake 7.0 for 21 days, then about 3 weeks at RH 7.0 w/errata CD installed), and it is running fine - I am reluctant to re-install RH to get the second CPU running, but I will this weekend probably...
> >
> 
> Do you have Mandrake or RedHat running now?
> 
> At worst you have to install the kernel sources from the distribution
> currently in use and build yourself a kernel with SMP support turned on.
> 
> RH comes with an alternate kernel package kernel-smp.*.rpm that can be
> installed to avoid compiling.
> 
> Unless you spend lots of time fiddling with Linux kernels, I suggest using kernel sources that come with the distribution rather than ones available from www.kernel.org.  The distributions' versions will have patches applied and options selected that are matched to the rest of the distribution, for example to init scripts.
> 
> -- SP
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Ken
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