From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B6814.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.104.20]:29476 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:23:06 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i22DN5ex014952; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:23:05 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i22DN0Fl014937; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:23:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:23:00 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Kevin Sawyer Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Olivetti M700-10s Message-ID: <20040302132300.GA13661@linux-mips.org> References: <000001c40008$f2faaf30$0371a8c0@metroeast.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c40008$f2faaf30$0371a8c0@metroeast.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4462 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:43:48AM -0600, Kevin Sawyer wrote: > I have about 50 of these. They are missing the drives (floppy, hard, CD) > and RAM but are ready to go otherwise (cables, Jazz364, etc.). They've been > moth-balled for a few years but I'm sure they're fine. I've yet to install > Linux on any of them but WinNT ran fine on a few for years. Anyone > interested? Well, Linux support for these boxes has suffered from bitrot over the past few years. Same for the basically identical MIPS Magnum 4000 and MIPS Millenium and the fairly similar PICA family. I don't have my Acer PICA anymore, so the recent work I did in cleaning up the 2.6 support probably won't boot but anyway, it should be rather close to working, so not too hard to debug. Ralf