Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:36:57 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> Subject: Re: silicon Graphics hardware Message-ID: <200809221636.57428.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080921192358.GA6424@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <48D67AE5.4050700@wallnet.com> <20080921192358.GA6424@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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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
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