Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
>>I have an Indy workstation with stuffed up software (corrupt /etc/passwd)
>>and of course the Irix installation Cd's are no where to be found :-(
>>
>>How is the linux port on sgi machines these days, last time I looked it
>>was somewhat unstable - has it improved any ?
>
>
> it is definitively working, but for indy, i dunno. It is somehow still unstable
> i reckon. If your only problem is a corrupted /etc/passwd, that sound not too
> difficult to fix: remove the disk, insert, mount and fix in a linux box.
Already looked into that - the filesystem on the indy is EFS which is
only supported read-only :-(
Anyway, I read an interesting article on the debian site on how to install
their port onto mips machines and have just finished installing woody.
Everything -seems- alright, but time (and usage) will tell ! :-)
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