Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8714&forum=45 I am looking to perform a large migration of about 500 workstations from various Suse and Red Hat versions to CentOS to standardize some what. Because I have to support x86 (32 & 64) and IA64 it would be nice to do this all at once. I know that CentOS 4.5 supports all the platforms listed, but if it's going to come out soon I'll just wait as it offers my users a lot more in terms of packages and support. BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-291-3610 Fax : 604-291-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
James A. Peltier wrote:> Hi All, > > I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for > IA64. I found this forum posting but no responsesThere will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. But that plan depends on resources and time available. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:>>There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. << Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909
"Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:>>What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? << Typical install minimum is around 512 MB RAM and a few GB of DASD. If you're installing in an LPAR you'll need to use the HMC to boot install media from CD-ROM or tape. Under VM, you can use a CMS profile disk to move the initial boot files onto DASD, then run a REXX exec to punch them to a virtual RDR and then re-ipl. Once the install-time kernel has started, you need to drive the install via SSH, or remote X or VNC (I forget which mechanisms RHEL supports) and it needs to use either a physical interface or a guest LAN interface, IUCV or VCTC to do that as well as download the installation packages. Once installation is done, I don't know what resources would be required to rebuild the entire distro - that's where the developers come in. And obiously another LPAR or VM guest would be required to test the built 5.0 system. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:16 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote:> BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix?We have two Altix machines (256p BX2 and 24p 3700) that are still stuck on SGI PP3 because we're hesitant to go to SuSE. I recall SGI saying that RHEL 4 (and thus CentOS 4) should work but that RedHat has a "hangup" on supporting anything with more than 16 CPU's. We have a "test" 8p Altix 350 that, if I can find some time, I might try to install CentOS on it. -Steve