RedHat and PA-RISC

[lastgreatone]

Anyone know if it's worth looking into installing RHES 4 on an HP-UX L1000(rp5400)? I guess my question is does RedHat support PA-RISC? Just considering options.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

RH will not work on that machine.

There are PA-RISC enabled linux distributions that might work on it, but RH will not work on PA-RISC.

SEP

[Vipulinux]

Hi
You can use the following to see whether your hardware is supported by redhat or not:

https://hardware.redhat.com/hwcert/list.cgi?product=Red+Hat+Hardware+Certification&quicksearch=PA-RISC

Unfortunately this one is not.

Cheers
Vipul

[lastgreatone]

Hum!! one other thought.

I believe my applications are compatible to run on an HP-UX PA-RISC rp5400 server. And Oracle 10G ias is supported too. Not sure if I'd have a compatibility problem with php-5.

I believe rp5400 are still supported by HP and a for a couple of years yet.

Anyone have any feedback on possible gotchas in this consideration? As far as I know, the only cost would be the support and I'd probably add more RAM.

Thoughts, comments greatly welcomed.
TIA

[dirk dierickx]

the best linux to run on a parisc box is 'debian' for the moment (although i don't think many more will put any effort in it).

http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Linux performance on PA-RISC is 'not optimal', so if You have a chance of running Your applications on HP-UX, do so.

You can find all Apache, Mysql, PHP stuff precompiled in the HP software depot. (http://software.hp.com is an outdated URL, but still works)

Look for the 'HP Apache based webserver', which in at the moment is Apache 2.0.55 and some PHP5 (don't know the version).

For other stuff, look through the 'HP Internet Express', and for everything else, there is the HP-UX porting archive at http://hpux.connect.org.uk

But, it depends on Your application plans.
If the rp5450 has a nice amount of RAM, You will enjoy running oracle on it.

If You need a lot of CPU horsepower (L1000 can only take two CPUs), You might be better off looking for some stock quad-opteron system.

Regards,
Florian

[Alan_152]

Your options for an HP9000 are either PA-Linux or A custom Gentoo build. Depending on how efficient and optimized you want your kernel, building Gentoo could take up to a week.