From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 21:32:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1582516A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:32:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC6E43D46 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 51EA8EA; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:32:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:32:15 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: Mark Andrews Message-ID: <20041027213215.GL94897@seekingfire.com> References: <1098890272.39238.69.camel@alfred> <41801055.8020306@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41801055.8020306@sympatico.ca> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRiX or FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:32:16 -0000 On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:17:09PM -0400, Mark Andrews wrote: > 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. For NetBSD, see http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/. I haven't tried an Indy, but I've set up two R5k O2s. OpenBSD claims to support the O2 (http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html), but I didn't see any mention of the Indy. -T -- "What are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!" -- Lazarus Long (_Time Enough for Love_, Robert Heinlein)