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 wrote:
Hi All,
I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses
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.
But that plan depends on resources and time available.
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
Steve Rigler wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
ProPack 5 has support for RHEL 5, thus why I would prefer to wait for CentOS 5. I'm in a holding pattern on my migration until then since PP4 is not *officially* supported on RHEL 4.
Currently my machines ( 64p x 64g 3700 & 32p x 32g prism) are running RHEL AS 3 PP3SP6 and SLES 10 PP4SP3. CentOS 5 and ProPack 5 offers my users a great deal in terms of support and features. I get regular updates, much newer software and "supported" (not from SGI) ProPack 5.
BTW: I tried booting on my 3700 it booted the kernel to a point where it identified the serial number and machine configuration details but didn't seem to go any further. I only messed with it for about 20 mins during a downtime period so it was far from comprehensive testing. Hopefully, when the loaner Altix 450 arrives I can work out some of the bugs.
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