Hi, Many thanks DongInn.
Yes, i would like to install YDL5-ppc64 on Xserver G5 with powerpc 970FX Cpu. There are 3 rackmounted nodes. I'm using Mandriva or CentOS on my workstation Linux Box and Fedora+oscar on our cluster (Tyan Opteron Box). After googling, YDL seems to be a good candidat for Xserver and you confirm too. I know nothing about XServer firmware ... and Mac in general :). I will test the installation from a new disk before to erase OSX. Tell you about my success or failure next week. Many thanks. Best regard, Jerome Lefèvre >Hi Jerome, > >I don't think installing oscar 5.1 on PPC64 would cause a big problem any >more. Basically YDL5-ppc64 would make it a little easier for you to setup >OSCAR 5.1 on your XServer because most OSCAR packages are already compiled >with PPC64 and OSCAR can recognize YDL5-ppc64 without tweaking distro >scripts too much. Of course, you can try to install all the other distros >that OSCAR support (I am sure that you would install the distro of >ppc(64), right?) but you would need to spend more time to recompile all >the packages for the distros and tweak more works on them. > >Anyway, have you tried to install YDL5-ppc64 on your XServer? I have tried >to install some linux distros (F7-X86_64 and RHEL4-X86_64, RHEL5.1-X86_64) >on my XServer with Intel CPU but it could not recognize the linux >installation CD/DVD because the XServer firmware could not understand the >linux kernel. I found some articles for this problem and there is a way to >avoid this problem but I could not try it any more. >Since your XServer is on PPC64, the firmware may just work with the linux >distros. > >I believe that if you can handle the issue of installing linux distros on >your XServer box, you are almost done with the oscar installation. > >Regards, > >- DongInn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
