On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Jordan, Shane wrote:
> Ok I have a older Indy box here and I was wondering what I need to do to get
> this thing running Linux. From what I understand you have to have Irix
> already installed on it. Unfortunently we just threw a new harddrive in
> with nothing on it and we don't have a copy of Irix. Is there anyway to
> install Linux on this badboy from scratch? I'm willing to help our with
> making binary package's ect if I can just get this thing booting into linux!
> Any ideas, cd's ect?
Afaik there are still no CDs you can use. However, it is not true that
you need Irix. The current problem is lack of a bootloader. So most
people just boot over the network and then use local disk. Another
option, the one that requires Irix, calls for placing a Linux kernel
in an Irix efs filesystem. A third option, not terribly easy to do
without Irix, calls for placing an entire Linux kernel in the boot
block. I recommend netbooting for now, especially if you don't have
Irix.
There are several distributions of varying non-production quality
available. Start with the HOWTO at
http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html. For some reason, my distro
isn't included in that document even though I wrote a piece for it
(Ralf?), so see also http://foobazco.org/~wesolows/Install-HOWTO.html
- note that 0.2b is out but already getting fairly old. I know for a
fact that you can install it without Irix because that's what I did
from day one.
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Keith M Wesolowski wesolows@chem.unr.edu
University of Nevada http://www.chem.unr.edu
Chemistry Department Systems and Network Administrator
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