From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtmjA-0001UX-No for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:29:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6GDSZWs028187; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:28:35 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6GDSYsT020326 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:28:35 GMT Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-steiner.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6GDSkob027847 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:28:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (68-232-96-93.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.96.93]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id DMP19665 (AUTH spbecker); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:28:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42D90B77.4070304@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:28:23 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050625) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] installing gentoo on a SGI Octane 2 (IP30) References: <20050716101049.GL16621@puck.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050716101049.GL16621@puck.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 697f6bc2-48fd-4970-b285-0bea3461704f X-Archives-Hash: d6c31b9d193f3e54d0a4a4a76462b764 > I'm new to the SGI world. I have now a Octane 2, and I want to install > Linux on it, and gentoo seem a good option. I have found this page > talking about this: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml > > and refering to: > > http://helios.et.put.poznan.pl/~sskowron/ip30/ > > which has moved to: > > http://skylark.cs.put.poznan.pl/ip30/ > > but the connection to this site is refused. > > Note that I well know GNU/Debian on x86 and SPARC (Ultra 10, Sun Blade). > The main problem is that I don't know anything about SGI and gentoo. > This is a good oportunity for me to learn both SGI and gentoo. The Gentoo mips-sources package contains all the patches needed for ip30. We also have install media for these machines, although the current netboot images have a bug with ethernet I believe, and I'm not sure they have support for the vpro graphics in octane2. I'm pretty sure a new set of netboot installs and a new livecd should be available pretty soon that should address all of these issues. -Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list