From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 1:49:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C454837B404 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PATRICK (loopback.mipjhb [209.212.102.245] (may be forged)) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g398nIL12256; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:49:22 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Message-ID: <009701c1dfa3$2df74e50$b50d030a@PATRICK> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Ven, AWE, van de (Adrian)" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: <16DA86BA6F96D5119B8000508B12378F20DBDF@inbexc4.inb.intra> Subject: Re: gigabyte 586 DX Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:47:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ven, AWE, van de (Adrian)" > i have a gigabyte 586 dx mainboard with 128 mb and 2 * 166 celeron chips. uw > scsi 18.3 gb harddisk. > > thsi weekend i downloaded freebsd 4.5, > but i haven't tested it yet on said system. > > can any one tell me if it will run? > It should do just fine :) Be aware that the default kernel for BSD is set to run on a single processor. However, rebuilding the kernel for SMP support is quite a simple process. When installing, be sure to include all the source code (it's an option during the installation process). Once that's done, the kernel rebuild is possible. Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. ___ _ __ / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __ / __/ -_) _) / ~ ) -_), ,-/ -_) _) /_/ \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/ http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message