L Class server

[Allan Palma Faylona]

Can i install an HP-UX 10.20 on a HP 9000/800 server L Class series?

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi

As far as I know, such a thing is not supported.

Sorry

[Shine_5]

Hi

The architecture of L- class will not support 10.2 version of HP-UX.
You can load 11.0 and above

Regards
Shine

[Mel Burslan]

I am not sure about the support issue but I have successfully installed 10.20 on an L2000 system in the past. But considering the firmware modifications since then (this was in 2001 when I did it) it may not be possible right now.

All you can do is try and see. Unsupportability may be an issue though if something goes wrong along the way.

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

The issue has been discussed here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=195978

HTH

[Bernie Vande Griend]

You cannot run 10.20 on L,N,A class (most of the new hardware). 11.0 is the minimum. K class is your best bet if you still need to run 10.20.

[Steven E. Protter]

No.

The OS is 32 bits and not supported.

The hardware can only run 64 bit OS.

SEP

[Martin Johnson]

Mmmm Steven,

How did Mel get it to work????

Curious,
Marty

[Patrick Wallek]

I don't see how Mel could have gotten 10.20 and an L-class machine. The L's have always been 64-bit only to the best of my knowledge and 10.20 was definitely only a 32-bit OS.

This is the first I have ever heard of 10.20 on any hardware like that.

[Ted Buis]

I don't doubt Mel got it to work partly, but since the L-class has PCI I/O and that was not a part of the server version of HP-UX 10.20 only the workstation version of HP-UX 10.20. The pa-risc 2.0 chips have a superset of the pa-risc 1.1 (32bit) chip instructions, so it isn't impossible, but many things are just not likely to work or work with great effort with no support. HP-UX isn't supported on any platform today so trying it on something where it was never supported and should have some problems isn't a good idea.