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 (314) 233-9700
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 (314) 233-9700
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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.