Re: SGI Altix 350/3700 - 450/4700

[Anibal Abdulkhalek <anibal@strixtech.com>]

Thanks It is very helpful.

We would like to offer a local customer the installation services for 
Debian on SGI Altix.
How can you collaborate with us with such proposal ? What is the process 
to hire your services in case we
hit a bug or a problem while installing.

I have an SGI Altix 350 available and once they see that running I 
believe I can convince them  to purchase a Altix 450 to do the same.

Thanks,
Anibal



Stéphane Larose wrote:
> Hi Anibal,
>
> Some months ago I begun to try installing Debian etch on an Altix 350. It 
> worked out by doing some changes that are explained on the link you found. I 
> then informed the debian community and Dan Frazier made those changes on etch 
> (I think there is only one thing left which is bug 408588).
>
> Since then I never tried the official etch cd to see if everything is ok 
> because I use the cd I created which is based on etch in December 2006 
> (http://rad.bioinfo.ulaval.ca/hardware/altixia64/netinst_debian_altix.iso/download). 
> This one boot and install whitout problem on our 350 and 3700 servers.
>
> Two weeks ago, we received a 450 and I tried to boot the cd I'm talking about 
> but it diden't worked (kernel crash when booting - but again, this is a 
> december version). I will have a look at that in 2 or 3 weeks (I will also 
> try the actual etch cd).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Stéphane Larose
>
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> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:47, Anibal Abdulkhalek wrote:
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> > That is part of the question, meaning whether it will work or not. The
> > other question is if there is a cheat sheet to follow for the installation.
> > I found one on the web but I wanted to confirm with some of the members
> > of the Debian community if they have tried as well.
> >
> > Here is what I found :
> >
> > http://rad.bioinfo.ulaval.ca/hardware/altixia64/debianonaltix/
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anibal
> >
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