foxb13
12th March 2004, 10:15 AM
Gang,
I'm running an IA-64 (Itanium) based workstation. Currently, Fedora cores are only available for i386 and AMD64 architectures. But I've noticed existing "RPMS" and "base" subdirectories for IA-64 in the FTP "development" directory. Unfortunately, the "images" subdirectory is empty. How to install Fedora on an IA-64 system (ore more generally, on a system other than i386 or AMD64) when the installation images are not provided? Do I have to install a regular Red Hat distribution (e.g. Taroon Beta) first on my system and then overwrite using the Fedora RPMs? Furthermore, I've noticed there's no "comps" package for IA-64 (only "comps-extra") so I suppose the "system-config-packages" won't work correctly, except if my previous distribution has already installed one. Am I right? To finish, why is the kernel for IA-64 still an old 2.4.9 version although Taroon Beta or RHEL provide 2.4.21 RPMs/SRPMs and Fedora SRPM provides a 2.6 kernel? A lot of questions indeed...
Thanks for any inputs.
I'm running an IA-64 (Itanium) based workstation. Currently, Fedora cores are only available for i386 and AMD64 architectures. But I've noticed existing "RPMS" and "base" subdirectories for IA-64 in the FTP "development" directory. Unfortunately, the "images" subdirectory is empty. How to install Fedora on an IA-64 system (ore more generally, on a system other than i386 or AMD64) when the installation images are not provided? Do I have to install a regular Red Hat distribution (e.g. Taroon Beta) first on my system and then overwrite using the Fedora RPMs? Furthermore, I've noticed there's no "comps" package for IA-64 (only "comps-extra") so I suppose the "system-config-packages" won't work correctly, except if my previous distribution has already installed one. Am I right? To finish, why is the kernel for IA-64 still an old 2.4.9 version although Taroon Beta or RHEL provide 2.4.21 RPMs/SRPMs and Fedora SRPM provides a 2.6 kernel? A lot of questions indeed...
Thanks for any inputs.
