New Red Hat Linux Beta release for ia64 available

A new Red Hat Linux beta release for ia64 is available - Wolverine.

You can get it from:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/wolverine/en/os/ia64/

ISOs are available at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/wolverine/en/iso/ia64/

This release includes the 2.4.3 kernel + 010405 ia64 patch, the ELILO loader, XFree86 4.0.3 (including DRI support), and other enhancements.

Recommended steppings/firmware:

B3 or C0 processors
Build 99 firmware (workstation)
Build 76 firmware (server)

Known bugs/caveats:
o The following software is known to be broken in this beta release:
- KDE
- aspell
o Support for the following hardware is known to be broken on machines with more than 2 GB of memory in the Red Hat Linux Itanium beta:
- USB
- Compaq Smart Array 5xxx
- Compaq Smart/2 RAID Controller
o Upgrades are not supported.

For more notes, see the RELEASE-NOTES file included in the distribution. Please report bugs/problems via bugzilla, at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

There is a mailing list you can join for discussion of this Red Hat Linux release on ia64; to subscribe, send mail to [email protected] with

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Bill

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Does this drop include the EFI GPT support in anaconda?