From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 13 20:01:20 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 05AAA16A401 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2C613C481 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2007 15:01:18 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id IGF71107; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:01:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-203-219.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.203.219]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2007 15:00:59 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17874.6393.196670.217781@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:00:57 -0500 To: User Questions In-Reply-To: <20070213142748.611D.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <45D2004C.8060806@sonicboom.org> <57d710000702131042w5f981cf4u70e0be62797be168@mail.gmail.com> <20070213142748.611D.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090209.45D2190D.00FD,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.125/2007-01-26 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 20:01:20 -0000 Gerard writes: > It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system > installation, there should be an option at the very least to > enable SMP. Installing a system, then having to rebuilt and and > reinstall it again if counter productive. > > The market is moving toward multiple CPUs. The FBSD installation > routine should embrace that reality and afford it the proper > consideration that it deserves. There are a lot of things the system installation process "should" do. (See regular and often ... vigorous ... discussions in various archives.) When you submit the PR containing the necessary patches. will you please "cc:" the list? :-) The more I hear on this, the more I become convinced "less is more"; a liner increase in number of choices usually results in an exponential increase in complexity (and corresponding failure modes). What I could see is a "post-install configuration advisor" - something that carefully probes the hardware, asks questions about intended usage, and builds a sample kernel config. It wouldn't fix disk partitioning issues, but it might pick up a lot of other problems. Robert Huff