topic Re: LINUX on rx2600 in Operating System - Linux

LINUX on rx2600

Cao Da Shi — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:33:39 GMT

Is there now any stable linux distribution on HP's new Itanium2 box "RX2600". What are they?

Re: LINUX on rx2600

Kodjo Agbenu — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:54:34 GMT

Hi,

Debian, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake provided or at least made announcements Linux distros for IA64. They should work out-of-the-box.

Good luck.

Kodjo

Re: LINUX on rx2600

Cao Da Shi — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:24:19 GMT

Is the IA-64 Linux for Itanium also able to run on Itanium 2? The chipset is rather different from RX4610 to RX2600/RX5610.

Re: LINUX on rx2600

Cao Da Shi — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:33:35 GMT

I'm sorry. RX2600/RX5670(Itanium2) is based on the same chipset call "ZX" from HP. But previous Itanium servers have a very different chipset.

Re: LINUX on rx2600

I_M — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:10:06 GMT

Hi

HP's Itanium2 servers are using zx1 chipset. So you can not install Linux for IA64 without special driver from HP.
You should contact to your local HP.

Re: LINUX on rx2600

Kodjo Agbenu — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:57:08 GMT

Hi,

You can check :

http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/images/Itanium_fact_sheet.pdf

It provides a list of certified distributions on Itanium2.

Good luck.

Kodjo