Hi All. I just got my hands on an old SGI Indigo2 and I would like to install Linux on it (preferably Debian). I've searched a few places and I get contradicting signals on whether this might work or not. The machine is an Indigo2 (IP28) 175MHz R10000. I've tried booting over the net using bootp and tftp following the instructionsin the debian-howto.. The machine gets an IP and immediately writes "execute format error" (using the r4k-ip22/tftpboot.img image). I'm guessing that this is and 32/64 bit problem, but I really haven't got a clue. I found an other image looking like it might be a 64 bit image (from Kumba, the Gentoo guy), it downloads and then freezes the machine. Can anybody give me some hints here: what I'm I suppose to do? Will this ever work? I don't really care about installation method (network, cd, etc). There was some talk in Febuary on a guy got Linux up and running on an Origin 200 - and some bootable cd's. That sounded prety interesting =] Btw: I also got my hands on an Octane (IP30) with an R10000 (195 Mhz) - I haven't tried to install on this one, but that might be interesting too.. -- Regards Martin Leopold. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
