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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
