IRiX or FreeBSD ?
Mark Andrews
mandrews4 at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 27 14:15:27 PDT 2004
Brent Casavant wrote:
>I know of no operating system other than IRIX which runs on an Octane,
>though NetBSD and maybe some others will run on O2 and other older SGI
>hardware. In addition, you are likely to be very disappointed with
>anything other than IRIX if you want to use an SGI box for anything
>more than curious OS hacking. In particular XFree86 does not (to my
>knowledge) support any graphics option in Octane, and only a few
>options on older hardware such as Indy (and even then, non-accelerated).
>
>As much as I love the BSDs, stick with IRIX unless you're interested
>in porting the OS yourself.
>
>
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.
I totally agree with Brent that IRIX is the best host operating system
for these boxes, since
it was developed on that hardware.
Oh, how I remember the days of IRIX 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 .... and I'm still
waiting for IRIX 6.6.
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