Indy Questions.

Indy Questions.

[Robert W. Current, Ph.D.]

I'm picking up an Indy, and I had two questions.

Can I do bootp and nfs? (no drive in the Indy at all).

Is there X support at all?
http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html says there is NONE.

http://www.linux.sgi.com/status.html mentions Xsgi running on top of Linux.

And I've also heard that XFree86 has been hacked to run on the XL frame
buffer, such as what is mentioned on
http://www.orcawerks.com/sgi/irix/linux.html

I'll only be getting one with an 8-bit frame buffer, I'd like to get the
24-bit one later, but for now just 8... So, any comments on X at all?

So, what's true?

Also, there seems to be nothing at all on ftp://oss.sgi.com/ anymore, where
has it all moved to?


Thanks :-)

Rob C.

Re: Indy Questions.

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:11:07AM -0700, Robert W. Current, Ph.D. wrote:
> I'm picking up an Indy, and I had two questions.
> 
> Can I do bootp and nfs? (no drive in the Indy at all).

Yep - Called "nfsroot" 

Flo
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Re: Indy Questions.

[Klaus Naumann]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:11:07 "Robert W. Current, Ph.D." wrote:
> Is there X support at all?
> http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html says there is NONE.

Yes, there is now one - I'll also update the FAQ today.
You may find it at:
http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/mipslinux/x/

> http://www.linux.sgi.com/status.html mentions Xsgi running on top of Linux.

Better forget about that ;)
What I heard it never really worked.

> And I've also heard that XFree86 has been hacked to run on the XL frame
> buffer, such as what is mentioned on
> http://www.orcawerks.com/sgi/irix/linux.html

I don't know about that one. But I recommend the one mentioned
above anyway. It's based up on XFree86 4.0 and is maintained.

> Also, there seems to be nothing at all on ftp://oss.sgi.com/ anymore, where
> has it all moved to?

That must be you - the project ftp server is still oss.sgi.com.
See ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/ - it's all there.

	CU, Klaus

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Re: Indy Questions.

[Guido Guenther]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:56:10PM +0200, Klaus Naumann wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:11:07 "Robert W. Current, Ph.D." wrote:
> > Is there X support at all?
> > http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html says there is NONE.
> Yes, there is now one - I'll also update the FAQ today.
> You may find it at:
> http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/mipslinux/x/
[..snip..] 
This has moved to: ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/X/
Regards,
 -- Guido

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