From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 13 08:23:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00CFF16A400 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.barnardq@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A52513C46B for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.barnardq@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so177809nfc for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:23:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=b3lqTP3XuXjDEIaWxSzoU27iWLm0z3/KZdJ4WNrL+/jKC8PiNlHupD0BAGEZG3vMi8cu1SaRgGuc6tEVzC4Za5dy2c/Qa5083qYf/vQRKlFgpgZiGtfF59fpK04hU4gf2L0cDLKmhYupMNehflp1GE3qTFiSUmgzEtghIH2i1q4= Received: by 10.82.148.7 with SMTP id v7mr14923622bud.1171355000817; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.168.13 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:23:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7dc029620702130023t577951derb86f0c9f40fb66a2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:23:20 +0300 From: "Mike Barnard" To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" In-Reply-To: <20070212173519.78775.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070212173519.78775.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:23:23 -0000 > Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by > someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the > ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor. nice choice What do i need to do to make sure i'm getting the use of both cores? I read > through the Handbook on Installation and it doesnt say anything about this. booting FreeBSD of the CD automatically detects the number of CPU's and boots the SMP kernel config. after you do your installation, with no custom kernel, it will continue to do so. the safe option is of course to build your own Kernel with SMP enabled. you are safer off installing PCBSD or DesktopBSD, though the former will give you an easier out fit for that hardware Thanks. Any other thoughts welcome! Im a little nervous about this, but the > T60 seems to be well supported. you are welcome -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------