Re: Redhat for Sun Sparc

On 10/13/2011 01:01 AM, Mantripragada, Surendra wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>  
> 
>     I am new to this mail list I hope I get a good support with respect
> to RHEL Sparc.
> 
> I have 2 Sun Sparc T5120 machine and I would like to install RHEL on
> those machines, related to the same I have below queries:
> 
> 1.       Is that possible to install redhat on Sun Sparc T5120 machine.
> 
> 2.       If it is possible then which RHEL version to be choosed.
> 
> 3.       What are the work around steps to be performed while installation.
> 
> 4.       And what is the procedure to install.

The last official version of Red Hat Linux with support for SPARC
systems was Red Hat Linux 6.2, released April 3, 2000. It stopped being
supported sometime in 2002, if I remember correctly.

There has never been a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SPARC.

The SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server is a Niagara 2 based sparc system, so
it will not run Red Hat Linux 6.2, even if you were willing to run
something so old.

There are versions of Fedora compiled for SPARC, but there has not been
a lot of effort put into them lately, and they're not terribly polished.
(I'm allowed to say this because I was one of the people working on that
effort.)

If this is intended for production use, I do not think you will find any
reliable Enterprise grade Linux for SPARC. Neither Oracle nor Sun before
them invested any real time, money, or energy in this space.

As much as I have a fondness for SPARC, I think you might be better off
selling that system and replacing it with an Intel class server that
will run RHEL.

Hope that helps,

~tom

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