Re: G5 blade center under debian
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:18:44PM -0600, vinai wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:41:37PM +0000, grave wrote:
> >
> > If it is apple machine, see the thread about dual-G5 from a few days
> > ago,
> > especially my recent post.
>
> I don't think he's talking about an Apple machine. I too was curious
> about his question about the system they got, and it looks like one of
> these:
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/js20/more_info.html
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> Look like a "big-iron" type of system made up of lots of smaller pieces
> of "little iron" :)
Oh, if it is the js20, i think we had had some report of people trying to make
it work some time back. I don't think d-i is already upto it, but the work
Cajus is doing should help. There may be kernel issues, but maybe the latest
bunch of 970Fx fixes will help, or maybe you need a ppc64 kernel.
All in all, it should be possible to make debian work on it, i don't know if
it is at this time an easy out of the box task though, but it certainly will
be in the next few month. Especially if you can do a bunch of tests on them.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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