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Old 09-24-2002
Question linux and irix on sgi
I have an SGI Indigo2 which I bought off of ebay.

It has Irix 6.5.15, but I am really not happy with this architecture and the proprietariness of SGI.

I have two hard drives.

Is it possible to install Redhat Linux on the second drive and run it on the Indigo2?

I used Unix in college a few years back, and I am getting back into using this type of operating system.
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Old 09-24-2002
It doesn't really look usable, but here's one link:
http://oss.sgi.com/mips/i2-howto.html

I don't know where development is, but you may have better luck with NetBSD:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/
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Old 09-26-2002
ok
here is a site you can get diffrent os for SGI www.linuxiso.org
or ftp.bendug.org/pub/
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