Upgrading hardware

[Dan Malvin]

Thanks for the advice.


On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:45, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Dan Malvin wrote:
> > I want to install Red Hat Linux AS on a computer with 512MB RAM and a
> > single 933MHz PIII processor.  The system board supports dual
> > processors.  If I decide to upgrade the memory and add a second
> > (identical) processor later on, how will Red Hat AS handle that?
> 
> It's trivial.  Memory will be automatically used.  You may want to
> create a larger swap file when you first set it up though.
> 
> For the second CPU, you've got a couple of options.  You can install the
> smp kernel now and just run it with a single cpu, or you can install and
> run the uniprocessor kernel (which it will default to).  When you add the
> 2nd CPU, just install the latest smp kernel at that time, double check
> your grub configuration to make sure you're going to run the right
> kernel, and reboot.  We did this with an old P III/500 and it took us a
> lot longer to the get the BIOS issues straightened out than it took to
> install the smp kernel.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
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> Ed Wilts, RHCE
> Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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Dan Malvin
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Dunwoody College of Technology
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