[Novalug] Installing Linux on SGI Octane with MIPS - easy?

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Thu Jun 14 15:05:21 EDT 2007


Looks like Debian might be your best bet.

Jay

> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
>
> then find a version of linux for it and install. just like x86, sparc,
> etc, it will 'work' if you can find a distro.
>
> problem is mips is pretty old....
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:05:58AM -0700, Jim Ide wrote:
>> Hi everyone -
>>
>> The Technology Specialist at my son's school has acquired
>> a SGI Octane workstation with a MIPS processor.  I do not
>> know if it comes with an OS (IRIX?).  The specialist would
>> like to install Linux on this box, and has asked me for
>> help.  Ideally, I am hoping that it will be as easy and
>> simple as installing Ubuntu.  Since I only have experience
>> with installing Linux on x86 machines, I would like to get
>> some idea of how easy/difficult installing Linux on MIPS
>> would be.  I don't have the expertise, time, or patience
>> to do lots of kernel recompiles, tweaking, endless google
>> research, etc.  Will this work easily, or will it be a
>> time consuming hassle?
>
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