My mini-port of RedHat 7.3 is at ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.3/ It has both mips (big endian) and mipsel (little endian) binary rpms. You should be able to put a small RedHat 7.3 on the mips/mipsel box and compile the rest of RedHat 7.3 yourselves. Here are something you should know: 1. The cross compiler hosted on RedHat 7.3/x86 is provided as the toolchain rpm. The binary rpms for the mips and mipsel cross compilers are included. This toolchain is a combination of gcc, binutils, gdb and glibc. It is packaged for the cross compiling. It allows you to cross compile to RedHat 7.3/mips/mipsel from a RedHat 7.3/x86 host. 2. You have to find a way to put those rpms on your machine. I use network boot and NFS root to do it. 3. baseline.tar.bz2 contains the cross build tree. You may need to install i386 rpm binary included here to rebuild mips/mipsel rpms on an x86 host. The "installer" directory has a simple installer, which can be used to prepare NFS root and install RedHat 7.3/mips/mipsel on a hard drive. 4. Since everything is cross compiled from x86, which is little endian, many data files for mips, which is big endian, are either missing or wrong. To get those data files for mips, you have to rebuild/install the folowing rpms: cracklib glibc natively on Linux/mips. 5. You should build/install perl rpm natively on your newly installed mips/mipsel box. Thanks. H.J.
