Re: rx6600

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On 4 Dec 2007, at 10:17 am, Mozzi wrote:

> Heya all
>
> I have a HP Invent rx6600 dual Itanium2 server here.
> I seem to have a problem even booting a Linux cd from it properly,  
> has anyone
> got it installed on this beast?
>
> The HP site has a lot of info on the Proliant servers but, not much  
> on the
> Invents.
> Should I use The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux?  
> it only
> seems to support sles and rhel.

... although it's actually a Debian CD.   Or at least used to be.  :-)

You shouldn't have any trouble installing Debiab-ia64 on this machine;  
we run Debian on a number of rx4640 servers, which I imagine are  
fairly similar.

The usual gotcha with these machines is getting the EFI console device  
right so that you can see what's going on...

Tim


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