Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-23 Thread James A. Peltier
Karanbir Singh wrote: What sort of machines do you have that you could test on ? there is an ia64 distro spin running right now, so depending on how that works out there will be an installable tree ( but no isos ) available for testing shortly. SGI Altix 3700 64P x 64GB, SGI Prism 32P x 32GB S

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
James A. Peltier wrote: Sorry to be a bit of a stickler, but can we please change the topic for each architecture. I am monitoring all posts containing IA64 or Itanium to see when CentOS 5 support will be available and this thread has been throwing *a lot* of false positives. What sort of mac

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-17 Thread James A. Peltier
Sorry to be a bit of a stickler, but can we please change the topic for each architecture. I am monitoring all posts containing IA64 or Itanium to see when CentOS 5 support will be available and this thread has been throwing *a lot* of false positives. Thanks, and again, sorry to be so sticky. __

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lamar Owen wrote: > I didn't mention the SUN E5500 and E6500 we might have something that runs on those boxs soon :! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
[Administrivia: should this be on CentOS-devel instead of the regular CentOS list? If so, please redirect.] On Friday 14 September 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > Whew. As typical, you have thoroughly thought through things. Let me see > if the beast will power up and whether the OS/2 console proces

[OT] Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
[Veering off-topic; mods, I'll not continue this branch of the thread much longer] On Friday 14 September 2007, John R Pierce wrote: > I've gotten away with running some 208V equipment on a 120V UPS using a > step-up transformer which had a 208V tap (and 220V, 240V). Of course, > 3000VA is g

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so, that would help matters considerably! All my good UPS's are 120VAC at this point (my one good 208VA

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > > What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small > > s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. > > What sort of access is needed? > > Goodness ... the Stuff you have in your closet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-12 Thread James A. Peltier
Steve Rigler wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:16 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix? We have two Altix machines (256p BX2 and 24p 3700) that are still stuck on SGI PP3 because we're hesitant to go to SuSE. I recall SGI saying that RHEL 4 (and thus Ce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Rigler
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:16 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: > BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix? We have two Altix machines (256p BX2 and 24p 3700) that are still stuck on SGI PP3 because we're hesitant to go to SuSE. I recall SGI saying that RHEL 4 (and thus CentOS 4) should work bu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-12 Thread Les Bell
"Lamar Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? << Typical install minimum is around 512 MB RAM and a few GB of DASD. If you're installing in an LPAR you

[CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Goodness ... the Stuff you have in your closet at PARI. Best as I had roughed out plans for a builder some

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? now, I haven't dealt personally with s390 since it was s370 and punchcards and mag tape were still de rigeur, so the followin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lamar Owen wrote: If hardware access is not a possibility, then machines fast enough to run the emulators might be an option too. What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Well, if we ha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Les Bell wrote: > > Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking > > to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. > > Provide access to the hardware, and if someone is interested we can look a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les Bell wrote: Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Provide access to the hardware, and if someone is interested we can look at it. If hardware access is not a possibility, then machines

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Les Bell
Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. << Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
James A. Peltier wrote: Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. But that

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8714&forum=45 I am looking to perform a large migration of about 500 workstations from various Suse and Re