From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:54:02 -0800 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:51070 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:53:42 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id TAA02448; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:56:27 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA00098 for linux-list; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:37:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA93597 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:37:00 -0800 (PST) mail_from (jgentry@swcp.com) Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id TAA04319 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:36:58 -0800 (PST) mail_from (jgentry@swcp.com) Received: from swcp.com (dpm7-16.swcp.com [204.134.12.80]) by taka.swcp.com (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id e1A3awU62630; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:36:58 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <38A2157E.E30EDA2C@swcp.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 20:33:50 -0500 From: Josh Gentry X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, jhart@tvi.cc.nm.us Subject: SGI/MIPS Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linuxmips-outgoing Folks, I am a student at a community college. Our networking lab is slated to receive some SGI servers as donations. I have not been able to find out the model of server, but I am sure it is a server, not a workstation. We desperately want to run Linux (or any of the free BSD distributions) on these machines. My digging has turned up Linux/MIPS ports that say they run on certain processors. I do not know if that means they will run on these SGI machines if they have those processors, etc. I just not knowledgeable enough about the way operating systems work to know if that is the case. Also, I have found that there is a port to the SGI Indy machines, but those seem to be workstations, so not what we will be getting. My question is, is there likely a port that we can run on these SGI servers? If a port does not specify that it runs on SGI machines, what do we have to look for to determine if it will? Thank you for any advice. Josh -- Josh jgentry@swcp.com Linux Dialin Server Setup Guide, http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html