[juneau-lug] Re: Indigo give-away

Hi, James,

Since I wanted an SGI for a long time, I was keeping an eye out for 
operating systems for them.  They're almost as bad as Microvaxes and 
PDP-11s for available OSs.

Last time I looked, Indys were supported by Linux, but _not_ Indigos. 
  That still seems to be the case, going by the links you gave.  In 
particular, look here: http://www.linux-mips.org/hardware.html .

They say:

Silicon Graphics Indigo

This machine is only being mentioned here because people have 
occasionally confused it with Indys or the Indigo 2. The Indigo is a 
different R3000-based architecture however, and is yet unsupported.

NetBSD claims that the Indigo R4x00 _is_ supported.  Hopefully, they do 
have support for the video card in Xfree; that's another sticky point in 
Linux.

If the old beast still has Irix on it, I'd leave well enough alone, I think.

Nels

James Zuelow wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
> reber@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello all,
>>I have an SGI Indigo (R4000) w/display/keyboard/mouse that I'd like to
>>offer to someone in the lug. Any problems? Well, currently I can't get the
>>mouse to work. Otherwise, no reservations. Free to any interested party.
>>Pickup/dropoff can be arranged or maybe I can deliver it to Monday's
>>meeting.
>>
>>thx/Reber
>>reber@xxxxxxxx
>>
> 
> I'm interested, but then again I'm also supposed to be REDUCING inventory.  :(
> 
> Anyway, if anyone wants to give it a go with Linux, here's a link:
> 
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> http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
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> 
> NetBSD is of course at NetBSD.org, and OpenBSD runs on them with some work.
> 
> If you're not quite sure what an Indy is, check this out:
> 
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> http://www.megarat.com/indigo/
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> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
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