On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Crossfire wrote: > Dion Curchin was once rumoured to have said: > > Hi there, > > Has anyone out there had experiences with running linux on SGI > > 02s or Octanes. Are there any traps to avoid ie unsupported or poor > > performing cpus. In fact both SGIs site and general searching of the > > net is producing little in the way of documentation on installing on SGI > > equipment. > > This would be because Linux/MIPS is still mostly a work in progress - > if you need installation instructions, you probably shouldn't be > working with it yet. > > There is some support for O2 in the pipe, and Linux is reputed to be > able to boot on them. I'm not sure about Octanes. Linux/MIPS can > boot on Indy's but is very immature. I do suggest sticking to Irix if > you want to be actually able to do anything with such a box.
Who knows, maybe there's a port of User Mode Linux for Irix? -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
