[TriLUG] OT: SGI Indigo2 for trade/free

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Fri May 27 20:39:46 EDT 2005


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Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

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| You won't have any luck getting Linux on an Indigo2.  There are specific
| problems with the processor and the implementation of the Indigo2
| platform that no one has bothered to overcome to get Linux to run on
| it.  <large snip>
| Aaron S. Joyner

Really.  From a bit of googling, I thought that the only hairy bit in
getting Linux on it was the video card, and having to use a serial
console.  Well then, in the above, s/Linux/something that works/.  Its
got a half broken netbsd install on it at the moment ;]
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