dual boot
hi...
i'm about to have a go at putting debian linux on my indy having assured
myself that i can re-install irix from cd if the worst comes to the worst! i
have a couple of questions, excuse me if they are naive.
i've read
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips-0105/msg00017.html
and it all makes sense but i was wondering if there are any caveats about
making the disk dual bootable with irix...? does irix have to be on partition
0 presumably swap has to be on dks0d1s1? i guess fx and fdisk will show things
differently. how different is the disklabel?
presumably i will answer some of these questions as i go along but i'd like to
have some sort of idea what to expect. i've had a trawl around the sgi site
which is interesting (would like to try the xfs-capable kernel) but havent
found any clear howto other than the above site. any pointers appreciated.
on a related note... is it possible to netboot irix from my debian linux pc
with ide cdrom? i had a quick attempt previously with little success but
eventually found a scsi drive that would actually work with the indy!
TIA
GREG
Reply to: