On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 20:45 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:

Mike McMullin wrote:

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One of the died in the wool windows guys at work has a couple of SGI boxes kicking around at home. We were talking about them and installing Linux on one or both. So what particular architecture should he use for an Octane and an O2?

The SGI website indicates that the Octane and Octane2 systems are MIPS, which means that there is no SUSE (or any other, that I'm aware of) distribution for it. You'd have to build your own

Thanks Anders. I seriously doubt that he'd want to go to that trouble. Does GCC run\port to MIPS?

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:57 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Mike,

On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:52, Mike McMullin wrote:

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On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 20:45 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:

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The SGI website indicates that the Octane and Octane2 systems are MIPS, which means that there is no SUSE (or any other, that I'm aware of) distribution for it. You'd have to build your own

Thanks Anders. I seriously doubt that he'd want to go to that trouble. Does GCC run\port to MIPS?

According to Wikipedia (hint, hint), it does.

My apologies Carl. Brain fart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection

Interesting. Thanks.

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:20 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Mike,

On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:11, Mike McMullin wrote:

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On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:57 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:52, Mike McMullin wrote:

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... Does GCC run\port to MIPS?

According to Wikipedia (hint, hint), it does.

My apologies Carl. Brain fart.

Carl? Carl who?? Who's Carl???

(Who's Carl This Time?)

Didn't I say Brain fart? Sorry Randall.

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 20:57 +0100, Steve Graegert wrote:

On 1/28/06, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Mike McMullin wrote:

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One of the died in the wool windows guys at work has a couple of SGI boxes kicking around at home. We were talking about them and installing Linux on one or both. So what particular architecture should he use for an Octane and an O2?

The SGI website indicates that the Octane and Octane2 systems are MIPS, which means that there is no SUSE (or any other, that I'm aware of) distribution for it. You'd have to build your own

Debian (http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/) and Gentoo (http://mips.gentoo.org/) support MIPS. Give 'em try.

Neat. He knows about Debian and would put the effort into getting it up and running. Thanks.