On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > I have install PC-BSD into a dual P/III machine, but i don't think the PCBSD > installer installed the SPM kernel. uname -a suggests that to be the case. > > There is a tar.bz2 file which fairly obviously is the SMP kernel plus some > modules, but I can't find very much about the making it go even after > spending quite a long time Googling around, and reading this _huge_ tome > called FreeBSD - The complete reference. Don't buy it, 'cos 'complete' it > just isn't. > > Do I just take the bull by the horns and extract from the tar file in the > kernel directory and reboot? > > I'm hoping to use the thing primarily as a distcc server, but to have it do > other server type things as well. > > tia etc. >
does this help? "don't know if you can install it on setup but after you are up and running click KMenu|Settings|System Administration|PC-BSD System. Once that window opens go to the 2nd tab, Kernel and you can drop down to the SMP kernal there and reboot." http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=4009&highlight=smp
