> > Thanks, Erich. The packages to use with smp kernels are the i386 ones? > > Paul > The latest smp kernel is: title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp) You will get an earlier kernel version on your initial FC5 install, after you've installed run 'yum update' for the latest kernel packages as well as other packages. When you've first installed, you will have both the smp and the non-smp kernels installed and in grub.conf, the install should default to the smp kernel, you can boot into a non-smp kernel if you want too. the kernel for the dual core is actually a i686 kernel, but is found in the i386 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/ you won't need to access that site directly as yum or pup will do that for you. I hope you're on a broadband connection, as updating via a modem would be a pain in the ... erich