[SunRescue] HOW useful 690/MP

[Keith Low]

Hi

    I just installed RedHat 5.2 Linux on a Dual-Pentium PC(No laughing please,
it is to help out a SPARCStation 1+ webserving), and it didn't support the 2
processors until the kernel was re-compiled, but I am not sure if the Sparc
version is the same. I am running RH 5.2 on the SS 1+ as well.


Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I don't believe that there is a "minimum" processor for MP, per say.  I'm
> reasonably sure that the S/Linux port runs MP, but quite so sure about the
> Sun 68K based machines.  In any event, just try booting from one of the
> disks, and see if it recognizes two processors on boot.  The RedHat boot
> disk should work well for this, you can just watch the boot messages going
> by telling how many processors Linux sees.  (Note that this isn't Sparc
> Linux, because Sparc is a trademark or some such bull)  I haven't tried it
> myself, since I'm teaching myself SunOS/Solaris.
>         Greg