From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 21:24:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1C4106566B for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick.jones2@hp.com) Received: from g4t0014.houston.hp.com (g4t0014.houston.hp.com [15.201.24.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2938FC15 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick.jones2@hp.com) Received: from tardy.cup.hp.com (tardy.cup.hp.com [16.89.104.60]) by g4t0014.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03A6240DF; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tardy.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_28810)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id OAA04178; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A259434.5030500@hp.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:05:56 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Zambrano References: <701499.97818.qm@web36802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <701499.97818.qm@web36802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ia64 systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:24:53 -0000 Gary Zambrano wrote: > Hi ia64 project, > > I want to install FreeBSD 7.2 on an ia64 system and am soliciting guidance. > > What is the ia64 system of choice for FreeBSD ? > > I'm hoping I can download the ISOs and install with minimal problems. > > I saw the "Machines on the market" list in the ia64 project, but the list > description states that "Presence here does not mean that FreeBSD has been > validated to run on it". > > So, I guess I am looking for validated info. I cannot speak to specifics of FreeBSD validation, but in general I would strongly suggest that one _NOT_ use systems based on "Merced" aka Itanium 1 processors. IIRC the only folks who sold/sell systems with Itanium2 processors in them were/are HP, SGI, Fujitsu and IIRC Hitachi and NEC. I don't think that either Dell or IBM sold Itanium2-based systems, but could be wrong. I do know they offered some Itanium1-based systems along with everyone else. rick jones