On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:28 AM, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On 6/30/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, John Niven wrote:
>>
>>> Ah! So I tried that and it says "hw.ncpu = 1"
>>>
>>> I guess I'm going to have to try and build my own kernel - can't 
>>> have a
>>> perfectly good CPU idle!
>>
>> You can also try one of the ready-to-use GENERIC.MP kernels. For 
>> example,
>> look under 
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/
>> or ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/
>>
>> The above is for 2.0.2 although you mentioned 2.0.
>>
>> This question is targetted for others: By the way, why do we have two 
>> of
>> each kernels -- one gzipped and one tarred up?
>>
>> 3565473  NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.MP.gz
>> 3565556  NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/kern-GENERIC.MP.tgz
>>
>> (I didn't look, but I assume the kernels are identical.)
>
> I think they are. I checked on hpcmips and they were. I never
> understood that either. Naming convention? Tradition?
>
>
Easier install?  They are named ./netbsd inside tar, so they get 
renamed and placed in
root by tar, so they work like any package tgz ,