I often have troubles installing an SMP version of some distros. I get kernel panics after the install, on the first boot.
If that does happen, you can just install in uni-processor mode. It wastes the power of one of the cpus, but should run fine otherwise... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tremaine Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Dell Server compdoc wrote: > Should work, though unless you have a lot of users, dual cpus might be more > trouble than it's worth. > > I can't speak to efw, because I haven't tried it, but some distros are more > difficult to set up on dual cpu/core systems. > > Just need to try it... > > Should not have any trouble with Dual CPU endian has provided the SMP kernels since 2.0. The biggest issue with Dell, HP whoever is really Hardware RAID, sometimes NIC's and always onboard sensors. If you do not use the hardware RAID and instead go with software RAID you are usually ok. Verify the NIC works and just give up on any cool sensors the thing might normally have under windows. -Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
