On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Aivo Kalu wrote:
> MFA of Estonia currently possesses an Siemens Nixdorf RM300 box, with a
> R4600/R4400 processor. It currently runs SINIX V5.42, but I personally
> dislike this old UNIX and would love to run modern Linux on it.
>
> By checking the http://lena.fnet.fr/, I fount to my dissappointment, that
> linux/MIPS doesn't yet run on it. Could you please tell me, if there is a
> big difference between RM200 and RM300 or is the difference in cards ?
These pages are _outdated_.
> I think we cannot lend you the machine to port Linux to it, but I think I
> could help you in some other ways (ftp mirror, testing the port, ...). Is
> there anything I could do for helping the RM300 ?
I assume you have the RM300 version with EISA and PCI slots? Other, older
versions are not supported.
The RM300 is basically identiac with the RM200, so basically Linux *should*
run on it but I never received any reports.
Ralf
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