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 (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA540881 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA09638 for linux-list; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:05:19 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA09611 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:05:13 -0700 Received: from dns.cobaltmicro.com ([209.19.61.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id QAA27124 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:05:08 -0700 env-from (ralf@mail2.cobaltmicro.com) Received: from dull.cobaltmicro.com (dull.cobaltmicro.com [209.19.61.35]) by dns.cobaltmicro.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10215; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:04:48 -0700 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dull.cobaltmicro.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00534; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:02:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199710242302.QAA00534@dull.cobaltmicro.com> Subject: Re: Look what I found in a big cardboard box To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: from "Alan Cox" at Oct 24, 97 10:53:47 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, > And there was light (actually there was heavy..) *grin* And there was big - the box didn't fit into my car ... > My SGI arrived today. Anyway after the required prelimiaries (Batallion, > making stupid indycam movies) I had a hack at the ext2fs utils and libs - > fixed them to compile and run properly under the Indy native cc. I can > successfully make and then fsck an ext2 partition. I'll work on a set of standalone utilities for the Indy's ARC (pronounce arggghh ...) firmware. That will bring us closer to get the thing independant from IRIX. In theory it should be pretty easy, but the various ARC implementations I saw so far were beyond just completly broken, at least the old onces which should be supported, too. > What Im going to do next is chase the work from the Mac68K installer and > see if I can use that with the ext2fs lib to get the same arrangement working > (that is an application level toolset for installing tars and the like) from > Irix. > > To that goal I'm going to be working on the tool stuff until I've successfully > bootstrapped Linux that way. Cool. Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199710242302.QAA00534@dull.cobaltmicro.com> Subject: Re: Look what I found in a big cardboard box Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:02:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: from "Alan Cox" at Oct 24, 97 10:53:47 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Alan Cox Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19971024230208.j4i-rgCu0x72lPNIYebFZy5hB1uxmJZdmR1YXjBQo04@z> Hi, > And there was light (actually there was heavy..) *grin* And there was big - the box didn't fit into my car ... > My SGI arrived today. Anyway after the required prelimiaries (Batallion, > making stupid indycam movies) I had a hack at the ext2fs utils and libs - > fixed them to compile and run properly under the Indy native cc. I can > successfully make and then fsck an ext2 partition. I'll work on a set of standalone utilities for the Indy's ARC (pronounce arggghh ...) firmware. That will bring us closer to get the thing independant from IRIX. In theory it should be pretty easy, but the various ARC implementations I saw so far were beyond just completly broken, at least the old onces which should be supported, too. > What Im going to do next is chase the work from the Mac68K installer and > see if I can use that with the ext2fs lib to get the same arrangement working > (that is an application level toolset for installing tars and the like) from > Irix. > > To that goal I'm going to be working on the tool stuff until I've successfully > bootstrapped Linux that way. Cool. Ralf