In article <5f9ff16ae76918da6eed42b1c75c0bfe@comcast.net>,
John Niven  <senseamp@comcast.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm totally new to this *NIX thing! I have an old Tyan Motherboard with 
>dual 200MHz Pentium Pro CPU's. I thought this would be a wonderful 
>learning tool. So I tried loading a copy of Red Hat 8 that I was 
>donated, but I found this unsatisfying, because it was all too easy to 
>get going :-) So I downloaded netBSD 2.0 and burnt an ISO disk. I got 
>my system to install, I've managed to add a user account and got 
>X-windows working!! I think this is good coming from a Macintosh user 
>:-)
>
>But how do I know if I'm using both CPU? Did I have to do something 
>special during the install?
>
>When I boot the system a lot of writing flashes by :-P Looks 
>informative. How do I slow it down?

you can run dmesg afterwards.
>
>I guess I have to tackle installing packages next. Do I need to do 
>anything different to work with dual CPU?

Well, if you run an MP kernel both CPUs will appear in the messages.
top will show 2 cpu lines.

christos