Re: Installation to SGI Indigo 2, boot?
Dear Mr. Plummer
Thank you so much for such a quick response. We will definitely try you
suggestion. Hope you would mind if you need any father help.
Once again many thanks and your support is really encouraging.
Sincerely
Tarikul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Plummer" <ebay.plummer@sun.com>
To: "mahmut aydoðmuþ" <mtaydogmus@hotmail.com>
Cc: <debian-mips@lists.debian.org>; "benyates3" <benyates3@comcast.net>;
"tarikul_islam" <tarikul_islam@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Installation to SGI Indigo 2, boot?
> I recently just installed on an Indy, so I might be able to help here.
> However, the Indigo 2 has the additional complexity of having video
> hardware that is not supported by Debian 3.0. This means that at the
> very least you will need another computer with a serial port so you can
> use the Indigo 2 serial console.
>
> From what I can tell, there are 3 installation approaches you can take.
>
> 1. Install completely over the internet. Directions for doing this on an
> Indy can be found at
> http://www.linux-debian.de/howto/debian-mips-woody-install.html. I'm
> assuming the instruction are the same for an Indigo, but having never
> done this on an Indigo I can't tell for sure. Note that besides having
> an internet connection (which you say you don't have) you will also need
> to setup a DHCP server from which you can netboot off of using bootp.
>
> 2. Install from a local ftp server. This is much like (1) above, except
> rather than being on the internet, you copy all your Debian CD's to a
> local ftp server. This basically means you need just 2 machines: your
> Indigo 2 and the DHCP server which also supports ftp of the Debian CD
> contents. This is the approach I took. You can get the DHCP
> configuration setup info from (1) above, and I can give you a bit of
> info on how to copy your CD's to the server and reference them during
> the installation.
>
> 3. You can also do a CD install, but you can't boot the Debian 3.0
> Install CD on an Indigo 2 (or any other SGI machine I believe).
> Something to do with the CD not having an SGI volume header and the
> kernel on the install CD not having ISO9660 CD support. There is a
> solution to this which involves making a bootable CD. You can find info
> in the recent mailing list thread "install from CD on an Indy" located
> at
>
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2003/debian-mips-200303/threads.html";.
> This is the approach I was going to take, but I had a bit of trouble
> early on and opted for (2) instead.
>
> In all 3 cases above, you'll need to use the serial console during the
> installation. This is something I've never done. I think you set the
> baud rate from the Indigo Command Monitor and you will also need to set
> the PROM to use the serial console instead of by setting the "console"
> environment variable, although it may default to the serial console if
> no keyboard is plugged in (I recall reading this somewhere).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
> > <?xml:namespace prefix="v" /><?xml:namespace prefix="o" />
> >
> > We are a group of student in University of Baltimore, Maryland trying to
install Linux for MIPS on SGI Indigo2 machines, currently
> > running IRIX version 5.2 OS. The hardware specifications for these
machines are as follows:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hard drive: 1.0 GB
> >
> > MIPS R4400
> >
> > 64 MB RAM
> >
> > CPU at 200 MHz
> >
> >
> >
> > These machines are not connected to a network, so we chose to install
from CD, and downloaded the CD images from
> > http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r1/jigdo/mips/. We then
followed the installation instructions that are available at
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mips/install for this specific
MIPS version. However, despite our heartiest effort, we could not
> > boot the system from CD to start the installation process. We also
prepared a boot disk as instructed in debian linux installation manuals
> > but again we failed. We believe part of the problem is that we are not
familiar enough with the IRIX operating system to deal with the
> > problem neither we are very experienced UNIX system administrators but
we need to get this project done and we are eager to learn
> > more. So please help us to move a step further, to be more specific if
you can tell us how to boot the system from either floppy or the
> > CD that would help us a lot.
> >
> >
> >
> > We greatly appreciate your time and effort. Thanks in advance.
>
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