Thanks to Ralf and SGI, I am putting the new mips toolchain and my mini port of RedHat 7.1 for mips/mipsel at ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/ I will upload binutils, gcc andd glibc rpms first, followed by a subset of RedHat 7.1. The whole process may take a few weeks since my network connection is not very fast. Once the upload is done, you should be able to put a small RedHat 7.1 on the mips/mipsel box and compile the rest of RedHat 7.1 yourselves. BTW, the new mips toolchain has gcc-2.96-88.1, binutils-2.11.90.0.19-1 and glibc-2.2.3-11.3. They are as good as the x86 version in RedHat 7.1. The only thing missing is gdb. I am looking forward to Daniel's mips port. Thanks. H.J.