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Re: dual pentium



On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

Dear Bruce,


> I haven't heard of anyone trying SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) yet.
> You'd probably be the first.

You may install without problems with one of your single processor
kernels.

> You'd have to recompile the kernel with SMP support. There also may be
> some SMP support tools that should be packaged for Debian. Try it out,
> and tell us how difficult it was.

Yes you will have to edit the kernel Makefile by hand. Just remove two
comments and enable MAKE=make -j3 in order to get you kernel compiled in
2:12min :-))


Yours,
-- martin
P.S. I am running Debian 1.1 happilly since the september.
 
// Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  // 
// Email: konold@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de              // 
       Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades 
       -- Edwin Huffstutler <ehuff@sedona.intel.com> -- 

   Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os !
                 Worked for me all the times.
                     -- Linus Torvalds --


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