Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:23:58 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: silicon Graphics hardware Message-ID: <20080921192358.GA6424@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <48D67AE5.4050700@wallnet.com> References: <48D67AE5.4050700@wallnet.com>
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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.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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