I am pretty sure that the answer is "No", but I thought I'd ask anyway,
just in case: Is there a Slackware-based distribution out there that
provides Itanium 2 support? I happen to have access to one such machine,
which is currently Fedora 3. I'd rather have Slackware on it, it that is
at all possible.

Augustus SFX van Dusen wrote:
>
> I am pretty sure that the answer is "No", but I thought I'd ask anyway,
> just in case: Is there a Slackware-based distribution out there that
> provides Itanium 2 support? I happen to have access to one such machine,
> which is currently Fedora 3. I'd rather have Slackware on it, it that is
> at all possible.
>

Probably not, but you can "roll your own," as always, in the case of a
system that's not supported. I'd rather roll my own then use Fedora,
myself, anyway.

You can use the Fedora box to create the new system and if you have an
extra partition available on it, you can use that as your "testing"
partition, popping things in place and when you have the base system
installed, make sure it works, bring it up on it's own, and then go from
there...

- Mike

On Thu, 05 May 2005 09:53:58 -0400, Michael Trausch wrote:

> You can use the Fedora box to create the new system and if you have an
> extra partition available on it, you can use that as your "testing"
> partition, popping things in place and when you have the base system
> installed, make sure it works, bring it up on it's own, and then go from
> there...

Thanks for your suggestion. That does sound like an interesting exercise
to tackle, but, alas, right now I just need to have the system up and
running. It would be much nicer with Slackware, but sometimes life sucks.

You can run the 32 bit version of SLack on that processor (i think), as
I run it on my AMD64.

masked.slacker@gmail.com <masked.slacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can run the 32 bit version of SLack on that processor (i think), as
> I run it on my AMD64.

I wouldn't advise it. The Itanium IS hardware compatible with the
Pentium, but it is a hardware EMULATION, not native mode.
So essentially you'll get a SLOW Pentium instead of an Itanium system.

And about "rolling your own", the version of gcc in Slackware probably
doesn't support the IA-64 as a target. Didn't test it, though, haven't
got an Itanium available.

For application programs I would be using Intel's own C-compiler
(a non-commercial version can be downloaded from their website),
but for kernel (cq libc libraries) I don't know if that will do it.
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