Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:17:09 -0400 From: Mark Andrews <mandrews4@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRiX or FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <41801055.8020306@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0410271440570.52569@kzerza.americas.sgi.com> References: <1098890272.39238.69.camel@alfred> <Pine.SGI.4.58.0410271440570.52569@kzerza.americas.sgi.com>
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Brent Casavant wrote: >I know of no operating system other than IRIX which runs on an Octane, >though NetBSD and maybe some others will run on O2 and other older SGI >hardware. In addition, you are likely to be very disappointed with >anything other than IRIX if you want to use an SGI box for anything >more than curious OS hacking. In particular XFree86 does not (to my >knowledge) support any graphics option in Octane, and only a few >options on older hardware such as Indy (and even then, non-accelerated). > >As much as I love the BSDs, stick with IRIX unless you're interested >in porting the OS yourself. > > I'm relatively new to this list and have a few SGI boxes at home running IRIX 6.5.X. One is an Indy R5K IP22 and the other an O2 R5K IP32. I've got a spare boot disk for the Indy and am wondering if FreeBSD or any of the BSDs will install and function on it. I totally agree with Brent that IRIX is the best host operating system for these boxes, since it was developed on that hardware. Oh, how I remember the days of IRIX 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 .... and I'm still waiting for IRIX 6.6.
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