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Re: [SLE] help please - 1st Suse Install ever to fall over here!!!!
  • From: Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:07:07 -0500
  • Message-id: <e7eeb230510130807j117cd89enf5d39e8f5f68beb9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 10/13/05, Paul Trevethan <plist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600
> graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate
>
> So, I tried running sax2 from init 3 and it will not load. Tried yast
> and that's when I realised I had no yast2-ncurses at all. I then checked
> and noticed it had given me the smp kernel??? I don't have
> multi-processor capability.

If your processor has Hyperthreading enabled, it will use smp kernel.

>
> On 2nd try, in package selection, I manually looked at yast2-ncurses. It
> was then I realised that ALL the software was being selected for the
> x86_64 option and not the i586 option?!
>
> So what, this thing thinks I have a multi-processor 64 bit system?! Well
> I don't!
>
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> Paul.
>

Maybe something in the options of the installer were not correct, try
to reinstall, and take a look at the options.

--
Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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