On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:00:43AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:37:34AM +0100, Olaf Zaplinski wrote: > > Where do I find it? I saw the debian-mipsel dist on ftp.rfc822.org, but as > > there is no doc at all, this dist is unusuable... perhaps I am lucky with > > that, I strongly dislike the Debian dist. > > Btw, what kind of doc do you expect? The MIPS port is, well, everything > but a "customer linux" right now. It's more-or-less working for > people who know what they do. There's no installer comparable to > a regular PC installation (insert boot CDROM, press enter sometimes, > ready). Everything you can expect is a tarball, which can be > mounted via nfsroot. There you can find a kernel inside which you > can boot over bootp/tftp (or via mop, if you have not so much luck). > Then, you can locally fdisk/mkfs/mount your HDDs and copy everything > by hand. That's the installation. > > Anything else still needs to be written. I've started an approach > of a clean debian root filesystem (ftp.lug-owl.de) you may want > to try. However, Debian is currently the only distribution supporting > those machines at all. The declinux image is heavily outdated and > ships a totally broken libc with it... It's no fun! > > MfG, JB"Nur die Harten komm'n in'n Garten, alle Weichen geh'n in Teich!"G > PS: http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html > Hm I am still working on the boot floppies for debian, when I have the time. for mipsel they should work, but I only build them for mips. the problem on mips was the sgi disklabel, but that isnt used on dec. -- Henning Heinold
