*NIX on Itanium

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

On 1/30/07, mike shlitz <mshlitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I recently acquired (gratis) a Compaq ProLiant DL
> 590/64 Quad Itanium (Merced) server.  It has a (4)
> SCSI drive capacity (hot swap).  7U form factor.  1 GB
> RAM (64 GB capable).


I'm jealous :)  I'm a hardware whore and love messing around with wacky
architectures and have never gotten my grubby little hands on an Itanium :)

Best choice for *NIX OS for this machine?  I have
> CentOS running well on my old DEC Alpha.  Ubuntu
> running smoothly on some iMac's, I see FreeBSD has a
> port for IA64, or maybe FC-6 (64bit)?  The last time I
> heard someone say "Itanium" at a LUG meeting, it was
> followed by hoots of laughter.


I like CentOS. Some quick googles show some posts from last summer timeframe
on the CentOS forums showing people getting kernel panics booting the
install CD on this system (however these seem to be from CentOS 4.3 so maybe
it was fixed in 4.4). One of the posts mentions that they want to switch
from Debian because Debian would install, but X wouldn't work. Maybe Debian
with a PCI graphics card installed in the box? Anyway, here's the posts that
I found:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=4062&forum=34
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=4870&forum=27

-Shawn
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