Well, the ProPack is for x86 machines. But we give you the source code
and you are welcome to try to compile it for other architectures. The
purpose of the ProPack is a method to deliver sgi's technology for linux
on top of various distributions before the original vendors adopt it (if
they ever do).
The propack will not work on Red Hat 6.2 out of the box because it looks
for redhat 6.1 or suse 6.3. I am in the process of working on the next
version of the propack (1.3) that will work on redhat 6.2, suse 6.4, and
turbolinux 6.0. I am also going to make sure it installs on Mandrake 7.0,
but this will be unsupported (in the traditional sense).
I will put an alpha of the propack 1.3 up on the webpage very soon now.
I was hoping to get our kernel up to 2.2.15pre17 before putting it up, but
I may put one up sooner.
-tduffy
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Russel Ingram wrote:
> I just have a couple of quick questions. The first is just to make
> sure that I understand fully the purpose of the ProPack -- The propack
> is compiled to run on x86 machines, right? The second question, then,
> is has anybody tried it with the new 6.2 version of Red Hat?
>
> --
> Russel H. Ingram
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Institute for Scientific Computation
> University of Wyoming/Math Dept.
> Phone : (307)766-6546
> E-Mail: ringram@xxxxxxxx
>
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