From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Burrell Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:08:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] IA64 Distributions 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 Brent Clements (bclem@rice.edu) said: > > Does anyone know of a list of Freely available ia64 based distributions > besides debian? Yes, MSC.Software provides a free linux for ia64: ftp://ftp.msclinux.com/mscbeta/ia64/March2003/install_dig.iso Some of the features are: kernel 2.4.19 glibc 2.2.5 gcc 3.2 KDE 3.1 XFree86 4.2.1 LSB compliance (certifcation in process of completion at this time) Webmin system administration NVidia cards supported with OpenGL and accelerated kernel driver FireGL4 cards supported in graphical mode with non-accelerated X windows devfs or traditional devices XFS, ext3 and ext2 supported (and reiserfs after installation) LVM available at installation time rpm based with full database information on all files *and* directories a set of cgi tools for creating clusters No graphics card is required as long as you have a serial console and CD-ROM drive. You can also perform a graphical installation on such a machine if you have a DHCP server on your network and a machine running X windows to recieve the exported display. This graphical machine does not have to be an Itanium, or even running Linux. Once you have a working installation on one machine, you may install to another machine, even if it does not have a CD-ROM drive by using the Netboot facility of EFI, and the provided cluster tools. The ability to easily perform a network boot is a wonderful feature of EFI and the elilo.efi utility provided by Stephane Eranian of HP. Ken Burrell