[NMLUG] Xeon Linux

[mwfolsom at swcp.com (Michael W. Folsom)]

 Aaron-

Need a bit more info -

Is the box new/old - what's the processor speed - is it really a 64 bit
box or a 32 bit one?  My guess is that its a 32 bit one.  Which
version/patch level of Suse are you trying to install (i.e Suse Ent 9,
sp 1)?  And finally why, oh why would one buy an HP (snicker - snicker)
when so many vanilla boxes run without grief - 2 GB of ram per pocessor
ain't that big a deal?

Re: the 32 vs 64 bit thing - Suse will/should complain if you are trying
to use the wrong version.


Later -


Michael


Aaron NMLUG-EV wrote:
>We have a dual Xeon (64-bit intel... IA64?) machine on which we
>can't seem to get a Linux loaded.  We got a 32-bit SuSE
>to run (somewhat), but the 64-bit puked.
>
>We even bought the "official" HP Linux for this machine,
>and it puked similarly. (a kernel lock-up)
>
>Any ideas about how to proceed?
>Any other distros we should try?
>
>The whole point of this machine was to be able to address
>more than 2G RAM per process.
>