Hello, I found the following machines lying idle at our Institute (shocking, I know!). Power Challenge L IP21 firmware 2 R8000 at 90 Mhz 2 GB disk 256 MB RAM Origin 200 (2 Towers) 4 R10000 at 180 Mhz 2 GB disk 2 x 256 MB RAM I would like to put some work on these machines *if* they can be used fruitfully (with some addition of disk capacity perhaps) in order to build packages for Debian (possibly as part of the build infrastructure). If so, then I would like to know if someone can tell me where I can look for hints on getting a Linux kernel to boot on these machines. The current Debian images do not seem to work (and probably should not since these are for different firmware versions!). I have tried to build a kernel for IP27 under qemu but not too hard --- so if that is a bad approach please let me know! If these machines cannot be used (are too slow/undependable) for package building, the please tell me so and I'll let them collect some more dust. :-( Regards, Kapil. P.S. Please cc me as I am not subscribed! --
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