<quote who="Jose Tavares"> > know how debian runs in it.. The purpose of the buy is to hack, play and > have a first try on SGI machines :) > > My questions are: > Is there a version of woody?
You will need the MIPS boot disks instead of the Intel ones. Both woody and sarge work well on the Indy. > How are the kernel ports? > Is it easy to install debian? and to recompile the kernel for it? Exactly the same proceedure as it's Intel brothers - though I think there was a trick about the boot loader as LILO is intel only from memory. A good place to start reading about Debian and the Indy (MIPS arch.) is http://www.linux-mips.org > I read that the installation must be done with a remote boot using dhcp, > tftp, etc.. is that the unique way? I found this to be the easiest and fastest way to do it. Especially if you have broadband Internet - no media to swap ! ;-) > Does it run XFree with color? Is it possible to listen to mp3 using it? Yes XFree works fine but there is still a bug when exiting X that the frame buffer does not reset correctly resulting in unreadable consoles. You should be able to play MP3's okay but the old Indy workstations are not very powerfull compared to the systems available today. -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
