RE: Linux on P7?

It must be a POWER based distribution and I believe Paul is correct, the
only place I am aware of is RedHat or Suse. I don't recall ever seeing an
Ubuntu 64bit POWER distribution.

And Bryan is also correct that the endian version is critical.


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:39 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Linux on P7?

Bryan,

I didn't know you could run CentOS on Power?
I thought it could only be Red Hat, SUSE, or Ubuntu.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan
Dietz
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:25 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Linux on P7?

I seem to recall that you'll need the big-endian distro for Power 7.

Loading as a NWSD hosted on IBM i might make it easier to do.
the IBM i LPAR would need minimal OS and processor resources.

I am running CentOS 7.2 on our Power8

Bryan



Buck Calabro wrote on 7/10/2018 4:42 PM:

On 7/10/2018 3:39 PM, Steve Pavlichek wrote:

Supported Linux distributions and virtualization options for POWER8
and POWER9 Linux on Power systems

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/linuxonibm/liaam/liaam
distros.htm#liaamdistros__supportedpower8

Thanks Steve.
I might be over-thinking it, but I have 40 years of midrange
experience, and I sort of expect a convoluted install process. So I'm
looking for a canonical 'How to install Linux on Power'. I saw the
referenced page, but I didn't see any download / install instructions.
The dW link Kevin posted looks promising.

It really is a P7 8202-E4C - I typed the wrong model number in my
initial post.

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