[wplug] SGI INDY

[Carl Benedict]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:14, Michael P. O Connor wrote:
> Well I am not sure on what this SGI needs, I can give you the Model No.
> (CMN B006Y75)  This SGI was given to me by a friend.  The hard drive has
> been blasted to my understanding.  It does have a hard drive.  If i need
> a serial console I do have one of those, if needed.  I am thinking BSD
> because I don't know it that well,a can not afford a copy of Irix (man I
> would love to get my hands on a copy of Irix)
> 

I ran an Indy as a webserver for awhile.  I believe it can only run up
to Irix 5.3 or maybe 6.0.  I think that Linux or BSD would be more
useful these days than an Irix version that old.


> > Michael P. O Connor wrote:
> > 
> > > Does any one have any experince in setting up an SGI INDY, I am thinking
> > > of putting BSD on it, but i have one problem, I don't have a SGI
> > > monitor, nor floppy nor CD drive.  My question is, at the next
> > > installfest (March 12, 2005) can some one give me a hand with it, and if
> > > you could loan me during the install fest a SGI monitor, that would be
> > > great.
> > 
> > The resident SGI guy (me) can help. I should be in town that weekend 
> > and can provide the monitor and cd drive. I've never installed BSD or 
> > Linux onto an SGI. [gawd I hate the thought of lugging a monitor around.]
> > 
> > Make sure that an install on the graphics console will actually work, 
> > it's possible that graphics may not be supported and you will have to 
> > do everything from a serial console.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
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