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After lots of tinkering, testing and other odd n' ends, I released on Tuesday a |
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new revision of the SGI LiveCD. Like its predecessor, RC4, this is a single CD |
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that will boot and bring up several completely different SGI systems to a state |
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where an install can be started. |
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This is one of those golden states long desired in the Linux/MIPS community, as |
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previously, the only other bootable CD's capable of doing this is IRIX install |
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media. This CD is still considered RC for the time begin as several of the |
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supported systems can be tricky at times to get started. Most notably, the SGI |
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Origin (IP27) series. |
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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this CD is in its creation -- it was |
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largely built using the upcoming 2.0 release of gentoo's release engineering |
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tool, Catalyst. Much thanks goes to Eric Edgar (rocket) and Chris Gianelloni |
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(wolf31o2) of the gentoo-releng team for their assistance on the Catalyst2 side |
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of things (this helped to nail several bugs in cat2 as well). |
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Additional thanks is extended to Stanislaw Skowronek (Skylark) for his ARCLoad |
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(sys-boot/arcload) [bootloader], sgibootcd (sys-boot/sgibootcd) [CD Image |
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Creator], and getdvhoff (sys-boot/getdvhoff) [utility] tools used in this CD, or |
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in its creation, as well as to 'learath' of #mipslinux for SGI Origin testing |
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access. |
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More info can be found in the README regarding questions, comments and bugs. |
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Initially, this can be found in my dev directory here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/releases/livecd-rc5/ |
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But it will soon be up onto the mirrors under the experimental/mips folder. |
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--Kumba |
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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