Re: indigo

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:19:16PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> From: Jerome KIEFFER <Jerome.Kieffer@crans.ens-cachan.fr>
> Jerome KIEFFER wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> > 
> > I got an old SGI indigo at work (R4000 100MHz ; 32Mb RAM 1Gb HD) that is
> > running rather good under irix 5.3.
> > 
> > So I got a question : is it  possible to run linux on it ? is the
> > graphical hardware supported by XFree ?
> > is it possible to run irix programs under linux (the SGI X server) or
> > linux programs over an IRIX kernel ?
> > 
> > I am brand new in the SGI world but I am a sysadmin on x86/linux for 3
> > years now so I know little on linux but nothing about cross-compiling
> > ...
> >   
> > If you can help me ; please answer... thanks

If this is really an "Indigo" and not an "Indigo2" or "Indy" we
cant really help you right now - The only 2 Supported SGI machines
are Indigo2 and Indy. The Indy is supported with GFX only with 2 Cards
and the Indigo2 only on serial console ...

Flo
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