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Installing SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8.0, Requirements and hardware used
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http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/nos/turbolinux.html SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 for IA-64 We also installed SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 with a 2.4.19 kernel optimized for Itanium 2. For information on IBM Support of SUSE LINUX products, go to: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/nos/suse.html 4.4.3 Installing SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8.0 In this section we describe the installation procedure of the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 and the issues you may find. Tip: Official installation instructions are typically available on the Web. However, at the time of writing none were published for the x455. Once these are available, they will be accessible at: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support Select the x455 (8855) and select OS Installation document type. IBM employees can access draft installation instructions from: http://nosinfo.raleigh.ibm.com Requirements and hardware used According to the Installation and Administration Addendum found in the doc directory on the first CD of SLES 8, the requirements to use this Linux distribution are: An Itanium or Itanium 2 processor At least 256 MB of main memory A hard disk larger than 10 GB Firmware version EFI 1.0.2 or 1.1.0 (preferred) Our test system was a multi-node configuration with two pre-production x455 units with: Four Itanium 2 processors running at 1.4 GHz per server Four GB of DDR RAM per server EFI Version 1.10 We also connected an RXE-100 expansion enclosure during the installation. 156 IBM xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide Eserver