[Wolves] SGI IRIX

[Simon Burke]

Just a quick one to let ppl know that in the end i bought IRIX 6.5.9
(i think) for a tenner off ebay, that way i should have no problems i
hope,  Though 8CD's for an Os is a bit stupid IMHO


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:36:21 +0100 (BST), Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Simon Burke <simon.burke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Theres one problem no OS, Ok It looks like debian is
> > my main choice,
> > unless someone knows where i can get IRIX for
> > roughly the same cost as
> > debian (ie nothin, well except for a couple of
> CD's).
> 
> Dunno about IRIX, but theres a Linux howto at
> http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/o2-howto.shtml
> and according to the announcement at
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3590 OpenBSD are
> starting a port to the O2.
> 
> It seems that Linux doesn't support the O2 out of the
> box (or tarball if you like), you need to patch the
> kernel (link at above link). Also according to
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0188.html
> you have to use a serial console as framebuffer
> doesn't work. However the guy in the follow up post
> has managed to get a few machines up and running and
> describes the process as a bit of a pain but kinda
> neat in a geeky way. Ulp...
> 
> Ad - knows bugger all about MIPS, SGI or IRIX
> 
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