[CentOS] CentOS 4.2beta on Sun Ultra 5 (sparc64)

Wed Dec 7 21:09:53 UTC 2005
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>

Lamar Owen wrote:

>>On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:15, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
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>>
>>>This is inspiring me to save up for a loaded Sun E420R or E450 to run at
>>>home and replace my Duron-based web/mail server.
>>>      
>>>
>>Whats your power bill like? :-D
>>
>>But seriously now. I'd like to try it just for the geek factor somewhere -
>>is
>>there a supported hardware list somewhere? How about US-III based
>>hardware?
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>>
>
>The beta doesn't support ESP controllers at this point, so E[3456][05]00
>are out for now; I tried doing an HD install, but Anaconda threw a signal
>11 (on hardware that is working fine under Aurora 2.0) before getting very
>far.  As the CD is on the ESP, makes it a little difficult.
>
>E10K and similar don't have Linux support.
>
>Not sure about kernel support for US 3; I don't have anything newer than
>US II 400's here yet.
>
>I installed it on an E450, but I think the E450 has some issues, as it
>didn't run long.  Not sure if prelinking is turned on; prelinking needs to
>be set to default to OFF at least on Aurora 2.0 at this point, and I would
>think the same would apply for CentOS 4.2 SPARC unless Pasi has fixed the
>prelink problem.
>
>Hardware available here for testing:
>E6500 (Im' actually loading it down with the 400MHz 4MB ecache CPU's;
>they'll only run at 360MHz on the 6500, but I have enough CPU's and boards
>to load it down to 26 CPU's for testing, albeit running at 336MHz due to
>the particular CPU/memory cards I have)(qlogic PTI to a D1000)
>E5500 (qlogic PTI to a D1000)
>E3500 (ESP hard disk there)
>E450
>U30
>U10
>U5
>
>While I have an E6000, not sure I'm going to power it up, as if I load the
>6500 down with 26CPU's there won't be enough cards to populate more than 4
>or 6 CPU's in the E6000, and the drive arrays on it are old and wierd.
>  
>
Just had to interject here... boy, that would be some piece of hardware 
to run the WRF or MM5 model on :-)  Even at slower clock speeds, with an 
MPI or DM setup, that would be a screamer!

Sam

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Snowman