topic Installing Red Hat 5 on an rx6600 in Operating System - Linux

Installing Red Hat 5 on an rx6600

Charles Jolley — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:46:39 GMT

I am looking into installing Red Hat 5 on a rx6600 Itanium server, but how do you view the installation display? I have also seen other things on HP's website about compatibility issues. Has anyone even done this?

Re: Installing Red Hat 5 on an rx6600

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:44 GMT

Check this thread, is applicable to Linux too:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1081837

Re: Installing Red Hat 5 on an rx6600

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:14:12 GMT

Shalom,

rx6600 has a SVGA output port, USB for keyboard and mouse.

You need to do the installation at the system or via enhanced iLo if you have licensed this and configured it.

Also the media for Itanium IA64 is the only media that will work.

SEP

Re: Installing Red Hat 5 on an rx6600

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:20:10 GMT

You *can* start the installation of RedHat 5 with serial console (including the ILO MP console) too.

See RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation Guide, Chapter 4.3.3: Additional Boot Options.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s2-x86-starting-bootopts.html

(Misleading URL: although it says "x86", it has information for Itanium too.)

Using a serial console will obviously force the installer to run in text mode. I have not tested the text mode installer of RedHat 5 yet, but with RHEL 4 I think the text mode installer was more limited in some respects: e.g. some disk partitioning options (LVM or software mirroring?) were available only in the GUI mode installer - or by using a Kickstart installation file.

MK