CentOS - May 2006 - Centos4 and Sun V40z x86_64

Hi,


Has anyone successfully installed Centos4 on the newer AMD powered Sun
gear?  I really want to hear if there are gotchas or lost/decreased
functionality.
a

-Rickp

Rick Philbrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed Centos4 on the newer AMD powered Sun
> gear?  I really want to hear if there are gotchas or lost/decreased
> functionality.
> a
V20z here ( and atleast 2 other CentOS Devel's ) and it works out of the
box, excellent bit of kit. I have it running on x86_64, but did run it
on i386 as well for a few days. Didnt have a problem either way.

Btw, large portions of CentOS4/i386 and x86_64 are built on Sun kit
these days.....

- KB
-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 15:51 -0700, Rick Philbrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed Centos4 on the newer AMD powered Sun
> gear?  I really want to hear if there are gotchas or lost/decreased
> functionality.
> a
> 
> -Rickp
Rick,

Sun donated 3 machines to the CentOS Project that are V20z's

See this story:
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=128

These machines have working flawlessly with CentOS-4.3 (and 3.7)
installed.

Both the i386 and x86_64 arches have been installed ... as has VMWare
Server Beta with VM's for both i386 and x86_64.

I did build and install the latest platform drivers from Sun (nps-
V2.4.0.2-0.i386.rpm) ... and I did build and install the broadcom
drivers (bcm5700-smp-7.3.5_2.6.9_34.EL-rhel4_2.i686.rpm) provided by Sun
as well. (that was i386 arch ... you can build the x86_64 versions too).

I have been super pleased with these machines.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
CentOS-4 Lead Developer




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On Wednesday 24 May 2006 18:51, Rick Philbrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Has anyone successfully installed Centos4 on the newer AMD powered Sun
> gear?  I really want to hear if there are gotchas or lost/decreased
> functionality.
We have a few of them - works fine. If you're running a larger DB or 
something, you get a huge performance boost out of proper numa settings in 
your grub.conf ... for us, it showed between 10 and  25% 

Peter.