From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 20:37:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5136C1065685 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E1F8FC0A for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.213.128] (rrcs-74-218-226-253.se.biz.rr.com [74.218.226.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8MKb3vw097874; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:37:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:36:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <48D67AE5.4050700@wallnet.com> <20080921192358.GA6424@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080921192358.GA6424@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809221636.57428.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Tim Kellers Subject: Re: silicon Graphics hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:09 -0000 On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:23:58 pm Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > > I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) > > posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run > > on any Silicon Graphics hardware? I've heard that (maybe) an Ubuntu > > distro _might_ run if the hardware was booted/configged with the Irix > > Foundations disks. The Information Systems department where I work > > is aswim in some SGI hardware that they'd like to relocate and > > reclaim the space, so I'm looking for alternatives to repurpose the > > hardware. Since I know FreeBSD better than any flavor of Linux, I'm > > looking for a BSD solution, first. > > > > I don't, yet, have the Foundations Irix disks, so I'm looking for any > > alternative I can find. > > FreeBSD does not (AFAIK) run on any Silicon Graphics machines. > NetBSD is however capable of running on several Silicon Graphics > machines, so you might take a look at that and see if it supports the > particular hardware you have (it probably does, but no guarantees.) Use this as a starting point: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/ JN