Live CD for Linux on Itanium

[Brian Schenkenberger]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

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

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

SEP

[Brian Schenkenberger]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Brian Schenkenberger]

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.