From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA63922 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:55:29 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA11580 for linux-list; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:54:23 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA11470 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:54:21 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adelton@informatics.muni.cz) Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz (aragorn.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.33]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id JAA07547 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:24:45 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adelton@informatics.muni.cz) Received: from anxur.fi.muni.cz (0@anxur.fi.muni.cz [147.251.48.3]) by aragorn.ics.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22362; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:24:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from aisa.fi.muni.cz (aisa [147.251.48.1]) by anxur.fi.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20873; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:24:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from adelton@localhost) by aisa.fi.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03825; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:24:17 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990120182416.P26376@aisa.fi.muni.cz> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:24:16 +0100 From: Honza Pazdziora To: Trevor Jennings , Linux SGI Subject: Re: Installing Linux on Indy References: <199901191346.IAA22005@develop.nmdg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199901191346.IAA22005@develop.nmdg.com>; from Trevor Jennings on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 09:11:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > Well, I am new to this mailing list and am thinking of installing Linux on > my trusty old Indy and was wondering if there was in fact any other way of > installing the hardhat release instead of having another linux box to boot > from? I was thinking of downloading the release onto jaz disk and > installing it from there, is that possible? I believe it is great that there To boot the kernel, you need a root. You should be able to boot from a root created from IRIX, I'm however not sure which filesystem you should pickup. You can create a e2fs filesystem from IRIX but I'm not aware of any way to mount the filesystem to copy the root there. For other filesystems, you might need to use cross-compiler to build new kernel. [Maybe somebody else will see easier ways?] So essentially, I'd say the answer is no. Note however that the other computer doesn't need to be Linux box, anything that can do tftp, bootp and nfs will be just fine. I myself boot from our Solaris server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honza Pazdziora | adelton@fi.muni.cz | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ The total number of bytes in all expressions in the GROUP BY clause is limited to the size of a data block minus some overhead. --Oracle SQL Ref. ------------------------------------------------------------------------