Hi everyone I am new here I always wanted to have Indy since I was a kid in high school but it was always too expensive. Until now. So I got one off eBay, and then beefed it up a little: Indy R5000 180MHz, 512KB SC 256MB RAM 9GB IBM SCSI hard disk Indy 8-bit graphics (yeah, I have to buy 24 bit one :))
I have successfully installed woody 3.0.19 from tftpboot.img I was amazed how easy it was. (Compared to installing debian on Sparcstation IPC a year ago.) Problems I encountered (all known bugs AFAIK): - update-menus crashes, recompiling it with -static helped - sometimes gnome-session or gnome-panel crashes (but I dont feel like recompiling gnome) - most of pixmaps are corrupted in gnome, gtk apps and also in icewm - palette is not restored properly when leaving X (both in X that comes with debian (4.1.something ?) and 4.2 I compiled from source XFree86 contains compiled in drivers for all PC graphics cards and that adds lots of bloat. Just by removing them (and input drivers except mouse) I slimmed XFree86 from 10 to 6 MB. Thats 4MB more for applications (and once I had computer with 64KB of memory)! here is my host.def #define BuildServersOnly YES #define XF86CardDrivers newport #define XInputDrivers mouse void #define LinuxDistribution LinuxDebian #define BuildXF86DRI YES #define DoLoadableServer NO #define XFree86Devel YES #define MakeDllModules YES #define XF86Server YES #define XnestServer NO #define XVirtualFramebufferServer NO #define XprtServer NO #define XF86VgaHw NO #define XF1Bpp NO #define XF4Bpp NO #define BuildScreenSaverExt NO #define BuildPexExt NO #define BuildXinerama NO #define BuildGlxExt YES I suppose more stuff can be disabled to make it even smaller. I am now converting sgi hardware docs from postscript to PDF and I will read them and then try to help. There are couple of ex-SGI guys at my workplace, I'll track them and I'll extract their brain contents somehow (it reminds me of Starship Troopers). -- Dominik Behr _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
