FINALLY I have a decent machine to Run LINUX on.

[Ulfwald]

Well folks. I have finally set up a Linux box. I set it up using Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack edition. Browsing the boards here using Mozilla.
I have to say that the install was very quick, as well as painless. Took me all of about an hour to install this and get it on the internat through my Dsl.
Next step: Setting it up as my web server using apache. While I do use MS products a lot, I am becoming a big proponent of the Open source movemant.

Rig I am using:

Dual P II 400
512 Ram
15 gig HDD
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card
56X Cd Rom

Not bad. the install FLEW through, and I think that this is utilizing both processors.

 

[ttn1]

Welcome to the wonderful world of linux. I have been using it for a little over a year. It took a while for me to get up to speed, but now 4 out of 5 of my servers run it. All of them run without monitor, keyboard or mouse. The remote administration is a wonderful thing. I would suggest VNC and SSH if you want to run it remotely.

That's a very good machine to run linux on, and it should be using both processors.

Good Luck.

ttn1

 

[Ulfwald]

Any way, like task manager, that I can tell if it is using both processors?

 

[DAM]

i think you have to check your lilo.conf to see if its running both procs.





dam()

 

[ttn1]

You need to have a multiprocessor kernel running, but I believe most of the new distros will autodetect and install it for you.

I haven't run linux on a dual machine yet. So I'm not exactly sure where to look to make sure it is using both.

ttn1

 

[Pepsi90919]

do a dmesg > ~/dmesg

then 'less dmesg' in your home directory to see your startup diagnostics...if it says anything about "SMP" then you're set.

 

[Draco]

Newer versions of "top" should show stats on both processors. Just type "top" at the shell, that's pretty close to a task-manager type tool.