Well I actually believe you''ll be ok with the combination. SLES-9-x86-64-RC5-CD isos are SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for AMD64 and em64t emulation which I understand is what's running when you run xeons. I have played mainly with the amd64 but all of SuSE and redhat distribution come with the 32_bit backward compatibility package as well. SuSE (totally out of character but showing some progress lately) have dealy with the 32biyt backward compatibility in a much more elegant and straight forward matter they dub all of their 32bit packages package-32bit - logical no? So typically stuff like kernels,glibc's openssl and such would have foo-1.2.3 and foo-32bit-1.2.3 packages. redhat on the other side - have gone to enormous means to confuse whoever has been following them for the past couple of years breaking many conventions they have kept. In their solutions. They release two glibc's two kernel's two openssls while the only thing differing the couples are the rpm architecture which does not show on rpm -qa. Also when you try to release an rpm ambiguous entries are there so you need to explicitly add --allmatches to erase them all. Well that was 60 seconds on 32bit backward compatibility but basically our software works with the 32bit libraries very well and without any problems so the CA 32 bit software shouldn't be a problem. I've walked the SLES9 + Oracle10g path and it just seems more and more walkable.. The installer has "record" feature which will let's you record a response file and you can automate tons of stuff that way (fun fun fun). Also Enterprise Manager has a very pwetty GUI with tons of bells and whistles... So In my opinion It's gonna be easier then you think.. Lior.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:27:32 +0100, Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > then comes the next pain... the backup system is CA, and they have > > nothing out for X86-64 yet. I have no idea how SuSE and RH encapsulate > > 32-bit support on the new AMD64 systems, but I think I can guess a 32 > > bit backup agent module and the 64 bit OS and Oracle will not play nice. > > If anyone knows the answer to that (I lack the bandwidth to actually > > test it in time) I'll listen gladly, on list of off it. > > According to what I read, SuSe and RH both have mixed mode for 64bits so > you can run both 32 and 64 bit applications at the same time. > > BUT, I'm not sure which one is the default... if it's the 32bit than you > are _probably_ ok. Since the libraries in /lib and /usr/lib will be > the 32 bit versions which will make CA happy. The 64bit stuff will be in > /lib64 and such. It does mean that compiling some package or program on > this platform will mean a bit more work, depending on the version you want. > > Baruch > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
