Re: [Sheflug] Silicon Graphics (Iris?) / Smoothwall

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thursday 26 July 2001 9:23 pm, you wrote:

> somehting like that, has a massive screen for cad work etc)... anyhew

Nice. The monitors are very nice.

> i havent got it yet but ive had a chance to play with it and seen its
> running something called IRIS , which ive heard is a 'flavour' of unix

IRIX. It's a proprietary UNIX from SGI.

> Basically, is there any chance out there that someone has experience
> with one of these machines or with iris? Is it possible to put linux

Not really, I've played with them before but never owned one. Indys are MIPS 
based so you need a MIPS based Linux to put on it. I think Debian do a MIPS 
distro, and should have boot disks (dunno what the actual floppy drives are 
like internally, hopefully PC compatible).

I would recommend leaving IRIX on there though. TBH the best thing about 
Indys is the decent graphics card (well behind most gamer cards now though) 
and the big monitor. How well Linux/XFree will cope with it is another matter.

Try the HOWTO:

http://reality.sgi.com/raju/SGI-Linux-mini-HOWTO.html

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