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Fwd: MIT x86_64 support.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Jan 2 13:29:27 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:29:18 -0500
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Phil Thompson asked if Athena supported RHEL 4 x86-64EMT. Here is the
reply I made to him.
-wdc
Begin forwarded message:
> From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
> Date: January 2, 2007 12:56:54 PM EST
> To: Philip R Thompson <phils@mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: MIT x86_64 support.
>
> At present the Athena install is still based on the 32 bit
> distribution of RHEL 4.
> (The Athena install still does the OS install, that is the universe
> that would get
> installed.) The 32 bit version runs just fine on the 64EMT
> processors, just without
> using any of the 64 bit capabilities.
>
> If you need 64bit, then you need to go with stock RHEL 4 x86_64.
>
> A modular Athena that installs on top of a pre-installed RHEL is under
> development, but no target deployment date has been announced.
>
> For further updates on Athena stuff, you might want to query the
> larger list,
> release-team@mit.edu. Although I remain knowledgeable about Athena,
> I'm no longer in the Athena reporting chain, so my replies are lore
> rather than canon these days.
>
> -wdc
>
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>
> William Cattey
> Linux Platform Coordinator
> MIT Information Services & Technology
>
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>
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Philip R Thompson wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I'm wondering if Athena Linux will install/support the new X86_64EMT
>> processors found on new Dell PowerEdge servers. If not, I can load
>> up RHEL 4 AS x86_64 U4 since I have the images already downloaded.
>>
>> Happy New Year,
>> -Phil
>> --
>> -----------------------------------
>> Philip R. Thompson
>> Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology email:
>> phils@mit.edu
>> Room 9-520 tel: 617-253-3535
>> 105 Massachusetts Avenue fax: 617-253-3625
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
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>> -
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