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Shivkumar
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Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Can we install HP's Linux on PA-RISC's system ?

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Shiv
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njia_1
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Hi

There is a website has a lot of PARISC Linux related information.

http://parisc-linux.org/
Mahesh Kumar Malik
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Hi Shiv

Linux for PA-RISC is avaiable as per info provided to you. Following is additional info in terms of hardware support matrix etc...

http://www.linux.com/howtos/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/index.shtml

Regards
Mahesh
Alessandro Pilati
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Andrew Merritt_2
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

The short answer is no, you can't. This is different from IPF (aka "Integrity" or "Itanium") systems, where HP does support certain Linux versions.

http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/index.html
and
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/servers/itanium.html

covers the options that HP does support.

The other posters are answering a slightly different question; yes, you can run Linux on PA systems, but not "HP's Linux".

Andrew
Florian Heigl (new acc)
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Debian Linux will run on most HP9000 systems, but honestly speaking the performance is far from convincing.

Also HP used to offer some Visualize workstations running linux (I saw them at HP show booth in 2000), but I do not know which Linux flavour was used and would assume the effort has died off long ago.
yesterday I stood at the edge. Today I'm one step ahead.
KRS_1
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

The following link explains about this

http://www.parisc-linux.org/software/install.html

Thanks and regards
KRS
generic_1
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

Even if you can I would stick with HPUX. The Linux is still buggy.
Uwe Zessin
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

And HP-UX has zero bugs? Come on...
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dirk dierickx
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Re: Linux on HP's PA-RISC

there is no 'hp linux', on any platform, but linux has parisc support available.

still, not sure if you would want to do it though. i'm an advocate, and i must confess that parisc support is not 100%, at least don't expect a trouble free ride.

so the answer is; yes you can, but expect to put some effort in it (and don't run production on it - ofcourse, on other architectures linux is great).