Re: silicon Graphics hardware
On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:23:58 pm Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run on any Silicon Graphics hardware? I've heard that (maybe) an Ubuntu distro _might_ run if the hardware was booted/configged with the Irix Foundations disks. The Information Systems department where I work is aswim in some SGI hardware that they'd like to relocate and reclaim the space, so I'm looking for alternatives to repurpose the hardware. Since I know FreeBSD better than any flavor of Linux, I'm looking for a BSD solution, first. I don't, yet, have the Foundations Irix disks, so I'm looking for any alternative I can find. FreeBSD does not (AFAIK) run on any Silicon Graphics machines. NetBSD is however capable of running on several Silicon Graphics machines, so you might take a look at that and see if it supports the particular hardware you have (it probably does, but no guarantees.) Use this as a starting point: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/ JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: silicon Graphics hardware
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run on any Silicon Graphics hardware? I've heard that (maybe) an Ubuntu distro _might_ run if the hardware was booted/configged with the Irix Foundations disks. The Information Systems department where I work is aswim in some SGI hardware that they'd like to relocate and reclaim the space, so I'm looking for alternatives to repurpose the hardware. Since I know FreeBSD better than any flavor of Linux, I'm looking for a BSD solution, first. I don't, yet, have the Foundations Irix disks, so I'm looking for any alternative I can find. FreeBSD does not (AFAIK) run on any Silicon Graphics machines. NetBSD is however capable of running on several Silicon Graphics machines, so you might take a look at that and see if it supports the particular hardware you have (it probably does, but no guarantees.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: silicon Graphics hardware
On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: FreeBSD does not (AFAIK) run on any Silicon Graphics machines. During SGI's descent from greatness into obscurity they built Windows NT machines with Intel CPUs before embracing Linux. FreeBSD *should* run on those systems but IMO SGI performance and/or reliability doesn't justify their cost. OTOH if you are trying to resurrect free hardware then just try it, nothing to lose. But at some point one must consider whether the cost of electricity to run old hardware is worth it. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
