Supported Distributions

Sun has tested the BMI server installation and functional provisioning on various distributions. As Sun adds support for more distributions and platforms, your BMI server will be automatically updated. For more information, contact Technical Support.

Installation Distributions

The BMI server can be installed on a machine with one of the following distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Enterprise Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Workstation Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server AMD-64

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Workstation Server AMD-64

• SUSE 9.2 Professional IA-32

• SUSE 9.1 Professional IA-32

• SUSE SLES 9 IA-32

Provisioning Distributions

The following listed distributions are those have been tested, at the time of publication of this document, for clients of the BMI server, to provision machines with these distributions:

• Solaris 10 on SPARC platforms

• Solaris 9 on SPARC platforms

• Solaris 8 on SPARC platforms

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Enterprise Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Workstation Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server AMD-64

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Workstation Server AMD-64

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Workstation Server IA-64

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Advanced Server IA-32

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Enterprise Server IA-32

• SUSE 9.2 Professional IA-32

• SUSE 9.1 Professional IA-32

• SUSE 9.0 Professional AMD-64

• SUSE SLES 9 AMD-64

• SUSE SLES 9 IA-32

• SUSE SLES 8 IA-32

• SUSE SLES 8 AMD-64