IRiX or FreeBSD ?

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:17:09PM -0400, Mark Andrews wrote:
> I'm relatively new to this list and have a few SGI boxes at home
> running IRIX 6.5.X. One is an Indy R5K IP22 and the other an O2 R5K
> IP32.
> 
> I've got a spare boot disk for the Indy and am wondering if FreeBSD or
> any of the BSDs will install and function on it.

For NetBSD, see http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/. I haven't tried an
Indy, but I've set up two R5k O2s.

OpenBSD claims to support the O2 (http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html), but
I didn't see any mention of the Indy.

-T


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