On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to load RHEL 5 on a Sunfire X4500 server also called a
Thumper and subsequently manage it via my Red Hat satellite server.
BTW, this is not a Sparc architecture machine.
The Sun documentation suggests that this server is certified for RHEL
4 Update 4 only.
My question is anyone running RHEL 5 on one of these Thumpers? Any
info/insight greatly appreciated.
We're running RHEL 5.2 on one of these, and didn't have any problems,
except for determining the NIC enumeration, which was a bit tricky.
(The port labled "NET0" shows during the Anaconda boot/build process
as eth2, and then when booted off of the kernel on disk, back as
eth0. It was kind of tricky, but with console access and patience,
doable.)
Since there is no hardware RAID in this system, we mirrored the boot
disks with software RAID; keep in mind that the only two disks in the
system that are bootable are (as far as rhel is concerned) sdy and sdac.
Also, you probably want to make sure and update the BIOS, ILOM, and
firmware to the latest levels before you start using the box; we had
some issues on other Thumpers with back-level firmware.
Aside from what I mentioned above, the Thumpers seem to have no
problems that we haven't seen on our other systems running rhel4 and
rhel5 (mainly X4600s, X4200s, X4100s and X2200s.)
Good luck.
-s-
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Sandor W. Sklar
Unix Systems Administrator
Digital Libraries Systems & Services
Stanford University Libraries
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