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Redhat Linux RHEL 4 on HP Itanium rx6600 server

gab_in — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:46:14 GMT

Hi,

We have a new project where we need to install RHEL4 on HP Itanium rx6600 server. Please let me know whether we need a seperate RHEL 4 OS CDs for Itanium (rx6600) machine or we can use the RHEL4 x86 CDs for the same and what are the major differences?

Thanks

Re: Redhat Linux RHEL 4 on HP Itanium rx6600 server

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:18:30 GMT

Shalom,

Itanium will not take x86 cds or x64 cd's.

You need IA64 media.

Itanium is a totally different processor architecture compared to the other two options.

Functionally there is no difference. Everything, including clustering works the same way. Installation is different due to the need to use the Itanium EFI interface to set up the install.

SEP

Re: Redhat Linux RHEL 4 on HP Itanium rx6600 server

Manoj Sivan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:47:34 GMT

hi there,

only IA64 OS medias will support on itanium architechture

regards

manoj

Re: Redhat Linux RHEL 4 on HP Itanium rx6600 server

Alan_152 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:02:31 GMT

And you will need RHEL4U3 or newer for ia64.