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 (971110.SGI.8.8.8/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id MAA507731 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:31:40 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA07397 for linux-list; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:28:19 -0800 Received: from oz.engr.sgi.com (oz.engr.sgi.com [150.166.61.27]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA07388 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:28:18 -0800 Received: (from ariel@localhost) by oz.engr.sgi.com (971110.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA26854 for linux@engr.sgi.com; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:28:18 -0800 (PST) From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199801192028.MAA26854@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: help new people get on board To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI/Linux mailing list) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:28:17 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk To whom it may concern... It seems that tere have been a recent surge in people who want to try SGI/Linux on their Indy's. Unfortunately, despite having about 10 people already running Linux on their SGIs we still don't have a really easy, complete, up-to-date, and straightforward doc on how to get there... For example: ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/mips-linux/GettingStarted/README says that Linux-installer-0.1.tar.gz is broken. root-be-0.00.cpio.gz is old, and root-be-0.02.tar.gz is untested. The FAQ/HOWTO is very old an inaccurate and has broken links: http://www.linux.sgi.com/faq.html Please, could someone who feel confident with this stuff step forward and make the necessary changes to the web/ftp site so we can have people join the trailblazers easily? Every minute invested in this as opposed to hacking the code would be a much better investment in terms of more people joining and keeping the momentum of this project. Thanks! -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199801192028.MAA26854@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: help new people get on board Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:28:17 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: SGI/Linux mailing list Message-ID: <19980119202817.scwZYhqqIBE0BeNGwvxeCeYSYG2qgWNGvJ_QMEVpmIA@z> To whom it may concern... It seems that tere have been a recent surge in people who want to try SGI/Linux on their Indy's. Unfortunately, despite having about 10 people already running Linux on their SGIs we still don't have a really easy, complete, up-to-date, and straightforward doc on how to get there... For example: ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/mips-linux/GettingStarted/README says that Linux-installer-0.1.tar.gz is broken. root-be-0.00.cpio.gz is old, and root-be-0.02.tar.gz is untested. The FAQ/HOWTO is very old an inaccurate and has broken links: http://www.linux.sgi.com/faq.html Please, could someone who feel confident with this stuff step forward and make the necessary changes to the web/ftp site so we can have people join the trailblazers easily? Every minute invested in this as opposed to hacking the code would be a much better investment in terms of more people joining and keeping the momentum of this project. Thanks! -- Peace, Ariel