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 NAA513236 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA12343 for linux-list; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:57:33 -0800 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 MAA12318; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:57:24 -0800 Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-46.netscape.com [205.217.237.46]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id MAA01688; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:57:23 -0800 env-from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from dredd.mcom.com (dredd.mcom.com [205.217.237.54]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21373; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.3]) by dredd.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA8869; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:57:19 -0800 Message-ID: <34C3B980.74B882C6@netscape.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:37:20 -0800 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Package Reflectors X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ariel Faigon CC: SGI/Linux mailing list Subject: Re: help new people get on board References: <199801192028.MAA26854@oz.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ariel Faigon wrote: > > 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. Linux-installer-0.1b.tar.gz is being uploaded as I type this. It's the old installer package with the actual installer. 0.2 will have the new libc and RPM stuff, along with whatever else appears in the RPMs or kernel tree by then. My Indy at home doesn't work because of the cache bug, and the one at work may be reallocated as fallout from the layoffs, so I'm having a bit of trouble progressing with the installer. Once we get the cache bug committed, I'll build a new kernel for the installer package and try to push it out quickly. Mike