From: Mat Withers <mat@minus-9.com>
To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: First attempt to install Linux on my Indigo 2
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:06:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022130659.B20721@minus-9.com> (raw)
Hi
I've been subscribed to the list for quite a while but am just about to try installing Linux on my Indigo2 (R4400SC / 128Mb RAM) for the first time.
I want to try H J Lu's port of Radhat 7.1. I've read the the howto at http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html, have set up a tftp server a bootp server an nfs server and have made up a working serial cable. Now having browsed ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/ I am unsure what to do next. I assume I will need a kernel image and a root filing system to nfs mount but can't see anything resembling them on the ftp site.
I have a spare 4Gb scsi disk that I want to attempt the install on. I assume that once I have got the machine booted using an nfs root I can partion the hard disk - somehow install the RPMS on it and then use dvhtool to get my SGI to boot from the hard disk.
Is this all feasible ? has anyone got any hints or gottcha's ?
Thanks in advance for any help
Cheers
Mat
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next reply other threads:[~2001-10-22 12:07 UTC|newest]
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2001-10-22 12:06 Mat Withers [this message]
2001-10-22 19:19 ` First attempt to install Linux on my Indigo 2 H . J . Lu
2001-10-22 19:19 ` H . J . Lu
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