From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 15:56:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.iaccess.com.au (hermes.iaccess.com.au [203.5.74.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9AAB15809 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben_bsd@iaa.com.au) Received: from lucretia.iaccess.com.au (IDENT:ben@lucretia.iaccess.com.au [203.9.250.207]) by hermes.iaccess.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA13326 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:54:30 +1000 (EST) From: Benjamin Gardiner To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i? Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:46:06 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.20] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000b01bebf2b$71d906e0$42f12dd1@warzone1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99062608545603.02392@lucretia.iaccess.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, Now I too am new to this, but, I think I can point you in the right direction. ( If I am wrong tell me please ) From what I have learnt in the last few weeks, of using FreeBSD at work, what when you first install FreeBSD you are given a generic kernel (much like with redhat does with linux) what you will need to do make sure that you have the kernel source installed, ( if not /stand/sysinstall and then post instalation configuration, and then install packages (i think) and select kernel source) then here comes the tricky part, you have to edit (again I may be totaly way off here) the GENERIC kernel config file or the LINT file, though the LINT file suggests that you only use what is in the LINT file to put into the GENERIC file, in the LINT file there are options for SMP (multiple proccessors) and once you have configured this file to the configuration ( I'm getting longwinded here arn't I ) which matches your hard ware, you the recompile the kernel. On this note, are there any nice little tools to help edit these files, or is vi emacs (insert editor here) the best way to go? I have been using (and still use ) linux for a while and have allways used menuconfig or xconfig for the purpose of configuring my kernels (under linux that is ) Benjamin one note, If I have gone off track here plese, someon correct me, as I don't want to give out misleading/confusing info. ta On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, ndk | Ralph | wrote: > Hey all, > I am a total newbie to bsd and have a little knowledge of linux my question > is > i have a duel pentium 2 how do i get freebsd to reconize my second > processor. > I am running 3.2 > > thank you > Ralph > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message