From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fox Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:24:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Basic Advice Needed Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 07:30:16PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > That is hard to believe, but in any case, you can get Debian isos at: > http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ Thanks for the link. RedHat ia64 seems to be open source as long as you are willling to open your wallet for $495. Seriously you can download the individual files but not isos and the seller wasn't able to make bootable CDs properly. I went to the RedHat ia64 list and I see some anguish but no success stories. > Dunno about "high memory", but the Debian ia64 build daemon builds on the > order of 100-150 packages of various complexity every day and it's been > running for over 100 days. It's a HP i2000 with 2G of RAM The seller claims it's stable with only 2 GB of RAM, but when he ups it to 5 GB with SuSE 7.1 the machine crashes every hour or so. If this is a software problem it's not good because the whole point of using a 64-bit machine is to address more than 2 GB with one process. -- ------------------------ Jeremy T. Fox jerfox@stanford.edu