From: Andy Isaacson <adi@mr-happy.com>
To: michael.j.lewis@db.com
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SGI-Linux VisualWorkstations
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:15:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000725111535.A13121@mr-happy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85256927.0048395E.00@nysmtp4001.svc.btco.com>; from michael.j.lewis@db.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:08:52PM +0100
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:08:52PM +0100, michael.j.lewis@db.com wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get Linux (any distribution) onto the Visual
> Workstation? Personally, had a no. of problems
> with the Visual Workstation and my last gasp effort to use the machine
> (apart from as a dust magnet) is to run Linux on
> them .... any info. pls. let me know. (linux.sgi.com ... used to have a
> couple of pages as I recall, but dont think they are there now....)
I have the instructions I used up at
http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~adi/visws/
The detailed (but only correct for the LCSE setup) instructions are at
http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~adi/visws/lcse-setup.html
It's not terribly useful, though... we had a lot of problems with our
setup and the systems are back to running NT full time.
Off the top of my head
- XFree86 4.0 fbdev driver had color problems
- only the first bank of memory was usable (256 of our 1024 MB)
- accessing the floppy or CD-ROM was likely to hang the machine
- 2.2.10 was the only kernel I could get running
-andy
--
Andy Isaacson <adi@mr-happy.com> http://web.mr-happy.com/~adi/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-25 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-25 13:08 SGI-Linux VisualWorkstations michael.j.lewis
2000-07-25 16:15 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2000-07-25 18:31 ` Ehab Fares
2000-07-25 23:43 ` Mark Pearson
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