topic Re: Live CD for Linux on Itanium in Operating System - Linux

Live CD for Linux on Itanium

Brian Schenkenberger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:18:22 GMT

Does such a beast exists and if so where???

I have the initial enabler disk (2004) which doesn't allow such a boot.

I cannot seem to get DUMP/RESTORE to install or to build from source and I'm in desperate need to MOVE a filesystem. Unless somebody has some other way beside DUMP/RESTORE to move an entire fs partition from one drive to another.

Thanks.

Re: Live CD for Linux on Itanium

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:23:32 GMT

Shalom,

http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/experimental/ia64/livecd/

Such things exist. They are rare and your results may vary.

SEP

Re: Live CD for Linux on Itanium

Brian Schenkenberger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:27:41 GMT

not going to do what I need...

I'm now trying to upgrade from Debian 3.1 (Sarge) to 4.0 (egde)... many issue... mostly trying to find full ia64 repositories for the sources list.

Re: Live CD for Linux on Itanium

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:59 GMT

your specific plan is helpful in providing you an answer.

I don't think you can do that on an IA64 system.

Red Hat and Suse have good support on this platform. There is no reason why centOS can not do a release but they have chosen not to.

You either go with what is supported or you may be out of luck.

SEP

Re: Live CD for Linux on Itanium

Brian Schenkenberger — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:45:09 GMT

I was afraid someone would say that. The Debian site claims ia64 support but the fact is there are too many pieces missing that it won't upgrade.

OK. the first order of business is to get this moved to a larger drive; then, I'll take a look at biting the bullet and installing Red Hat and moving all of the files needed to it.