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Re: Setting up Linux on a SGI Indigo Box



Try these:

http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/

For indy, don't know if it will help:
http://www.linux-debian.de/howto/debian-mips-woody-install.html
Good luck,
Brian

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:15:56 -0800
Robert Haack <haack@nclack.k12.or.us> wrote:

> We have 2 SGI Indigo boxes that we would like to install Linux on.  I've 
> never used an SGI box before some I'm at a loss at exactly what to 
> do.  When we first got these machines they had no hard drives in them but 
> we managed to scrounge up a 1 GB SCSI drive to at least do a test install 
> on.  We bought the complete set of Debian Linux on CD and now we are trying 
> to install it, but all of the directions I come across say to create a 
> bootable floppy which would be fine but these boxes don't have floppy 
> drives and the system doesn't seem to boot off of the CD-ROM.  So I'm 
> wondering if somebody can give me some directions or guide lines on how to 
> get Debian installed on this box.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 



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