On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 06:39 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Yes of cousre! :), but thats not what this is about. my script installs an > upgraded kernel and updates for systems with no network. I was just looking > for a way to test for how many cpus are in system regardless of the running > kernel. > > Thanks you guys, I will keep hunting there must be away in which it can be > done. Yes, there must, because the installer can detect (or is supposed to be able to detect) an SMP system, and that is running the i586 uniprocessor kernel. I don't how to do it though. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>