On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:00:55PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > We're working to resurrect the Origin 2000, now that is going to suck > > > power :-) Origin 200 running 2.6 is behaving very well btw. > > > > Hmm, that may be the right path then. Can I just install debian and then > > rebuild the 2.6 kernel? > > The Debian installer doesn't support the machine but you could just boot > your Indy's installation over the network then partition the disk and > transfer the entire installation to the Origin's disks.
Err, umm. The entire list is going to think I'm the lamest person around but I don't suppose there is someone out there with an O200 who would be willing to do this for us? If not, what if I were to buy one and buy you one, then you get yours installed and send me a drive with things installed. I apologize for being so lame but we make exactly zero dollars off of the Linux/MIPS platform and I can't afford to spend any significant time on this. If it costs me a couple of machines, well, OK, that's cool, money is far easier to come by than my time (unfortunately I still do sys admin for the company. CEO & sys admin, wow, cool. Not.) So here's a chance for some poor hacker (in the US, please, shipping costs are nasty on these boxes) to get a O200 in return for some hacking. Ideally, I'd love it if the result was that debian-mips got real support for O200's. I.e., get a cd, boot, install. There are a lot of O200's on ebay cheap. An interesting alternative would be the same deal with sibyte boards. I could shake loose a couple of those boards from broadcom. If someone were interested in doing the grunt work to take debian (or any distro, I don't really care) and make it support those boards (where support means you shove in a CD and boot and install) then I'll pay for the hardware (i.e., a board and all the other crud to make it a system). Given a choice, I think I'd prefer the sibyte but I have to go find out how much those are. I have a query into some people at Broadcom, we'll see what they say. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
