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Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]



Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:

> kinda curious, uname -a said "Linux dr02g 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb
> 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux". 
> This is not a SMP kernel, not a real one or something different?!

~$ grep SMP /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686
CONFIG_SMP=y
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP=y
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_SMP=y

The 686 kernels are SMP for some time now.

> dpkg said, the installed "kernel" is "linux-image-2.6.18-4-686" and
> "linux-image-2.6-686" (no kernel-image-* is installed)

The linux kernel packages in etch and above have been renamed to avoid
conflicts with non-linux kernels like freebsd.

HTH,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)



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