Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

Brian bri at sonicboom.org
Tue Feb 13 20:02:42 UTC 2007


> It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system installation,
> there should be an option at the very least to enable SMP. Installing
> a system, then having to rebuilt and and reinstall it again if counter
> productive.
>
> The market is moving toward multiple CPUs. The FBSD installation routine
> should embrace that reality and afford it the proper consideration that
> it deserves.
>
>   
All I'm saying is that we see several emails here asking which build to 
use, the question of smp comes up along with amd64 vs i386 vs ia64.  How 
many more wonder but don't ask?  It'd be glorious for the install 
routine to make this easier on the user.  New users are not experts.

Brian


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