Many Thanks, DongInn. For my Xserver G5 + Oscar 5.1, what distro you suggest ?
yellowdog-5.0-phoenix-20061208-PS3.iso yellowdog-5.0.1-phoenix-20070326-APPLE.iso yellowdog-5.0.1-phoenix-20070511-PS3.iso yellowdog-5.0.2-20070711.iso Best regard, Jérôme Lefèvre A 10:58 11/02/2008 -0500, DongInn Kim a écrit : >AFAIR, the firmware issue was on the Intel XServer. Maybe your PPC XServer >would just work ;-) > >Regards, > >- DongInn > > >Jérôme Lefèvre wrote: > > 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
