DecStation 4000 info wanted

DecStation 4000 info wanted

[Ian Molton]

Hi there...

Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
Decstation4000s ?

I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
Linux on.

It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
bootloader.

It used to boot over a network.

what do I need to do to make it boot linux?

Re: DecStation 4000 info wanted

[Joel Jaeggli]

having played with some dec stations in the past... I'd recomend trying 
netbsd...

joelja

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ian Molton wrote:

> Hi there...
> 
> Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> Decstation4000s ?
> 
> I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> Linux on.
> 
> It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> bootloader.
> 
> It used to boot over a network.
> 
> what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
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Re: DecStation 4000 info wanted

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Joel ,  Have they fianlly gotten the graphics engines
	working for decstations ?  Last time I played with BSD on
	decstations there was -no- graphics capacities available .
	I hope that has changed .  Tia ,  JimL

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> having played with some dec stations in the past... I'd recomend trying
> netbsd...
>
> joelja
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ian Molton wrote:
>
> > Hi there...
> >
> > Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> > Decstation4000s ?
> >
> > I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> > Linux on.
> >
> > It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> > bootloader.
> >
> > It used to boot over a network.
> >
> > what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
> > -
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Re: DecStation 4000 info wanted

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:03:13AM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> Decstation4000s ?
> I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> Linux on.
> It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> bootloader.
> It used to boot over a network.
> what do I need to do to make it boot linux?

Short answer: kernel hacking.

You might want to subscribe to linux-mips@oss.sgi.com and visit
irc.openprojects.net #mipslinux, which are more appropriate fora for
this. There is also a site dedicated to Linux on DecStations at

	http://decstation.unix-ag.org/

which distributes a port of 2.2.x to DecStations. It makes no reference
to DecStation 4000's so you may well be faced with porting it yourself.


Cheers,
Bill