<quote who="Dean Hamstead">

> is there any way you could have the installer detect the number of cpus?
> 
> perhaps do the install with an SMP kernel. then if there is more than one
> cpu install the smp, if not install the uniprocessor kernel

That's precisely what the debian-installer infrastructure does, *if* there
are multiple kernel packages available on the CD. Our server profile CD will
do that, because we can make room for all the packages, but we can't fit all
of it on the usual desktop CD.

- Jeff

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