Hi On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:18:36PM +0000, germ mipseb wrote: > Hello, > > So far the only *NIX I have been able to boot a rather dated > miniboot image from debian 4.0 etch on my Silicon Graphics Interactive > Indy R4600 128mb of ram 8bit Newport graphics. Every other > installation media has failed. The issue here is that Debian etch is > only pointing towards the most recent mirrors of Debian (Bookworm / > Trixie / Sid) and I cannot change the mirrors to anything else. When > asked on OFTC in #debian-mips I was told to seek advice on the mailing > list. What would be the easiest way to install Debian on IP-22, IP-30, > or IP-32? You will be out of luck. MIPS Big endian support has been dropped after Debian 8 - So the last release is Jessie. The MIPSel port has been dropped and replaced with MIPS64el which requires at least a MIPSr2. This caused most of the Debian/MIPS user not beeing able to run any Debian/MIPS(el) based stuff anymore as all historic machines like SGI Indy/Indigo2/O2/O200/O2000, Digital Decstations and Siemens-Nixdorf RM200/300/400 are all unsupported after Jessie. Newer hardware/CPUs are not really available in the general market so Debian/MIPSel is in constant decline for a couple of years. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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