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[Smith, Herb]

Hi all,

I have a Silicon Graphics 320 PC that I'd like to turn into a Fedora machine...currently it's NT 4.0.

It won't boot from the cd or floppy...

I understand that there may be some tricks necessary to pull this off.  Has anyone got any experience with a beast like this?

Thanks

Herb Smith Jr.   
Structural Analysis Tools
Lean Engineering
Boeing - St. Louis
[phone]

[Michael E. Webster]

Herb,

One possibility is to build a base system on similar hardware, pull the
drives and slap 'em into your SGI box.  Make sure you have kudzu enabled
- it should detect the hardware changes at boot time.  Of course no
guarantees, but its definitely an option.

Mike Webster
Systems Administrator
Intercosmos Media Group, Inc.

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:09, Smith, Herb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Silicon Graphics 320 PC that I'd like to turn into a Fedora machine...currently it's NT 4.0.
>
> It won't boot from the cd or floppy...
>
> I understand that there may be some tricks necessary to pull this off.  Has anyone got any experience with a beast like this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Herb Smith Jr.   
> Structural Analysis Tools
> Lean Engineering
> Boeing - St. Louis
> [phone]
>
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[Randy Kelsoe]

Smith, Herb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Silicon Graphics 320 PC that I'd like to turn into a Fedora machine...currently it's NT 4.0.
>
> It won't boot from the cd or floppy...
>
> I understand that there may be some tricks necessary to pull this off.  Has anyone got any experience with a beast like this?

I have a 320, but it's running Win2K. There is a link that was an SGI 
howto to load linux:

http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/arcboot.html

I have not tried this, but it looks like you download and create 2 
floppies that allow you to install Linux from CDROM. The arcloader was 
created for installing Linux 6.0, but it may work with Fedora...give it 
a try. I don't think the Cobalt graphics are supported.