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Linux for SGI Visual Workstations
Linux 2.2.10 + Red Hat 6.0
NOTE: These instructions need to be updated.
Updated: July 8, 1999
Required materials
There are SOME RESTRICTIONS on the hardware supported at this time.
- Visual Workstation
A 320 or 540 Visual Workstation.
MUST BE FACTORY SYSTEM!
Pre-production or beta systems MAY NOT WORK.
- 1 IDE or 1 QLOGIC-based SCSI
disk drive already installed in your computer
This procedure permits you to PROTECT and multi-boot
with any number of other OSs on your Visual Workstation.
- 1 IDE CD-ROM reader already installed in your computer
The CD-ROM drive can be on ANY IDE bus
as either master or slave.
- 1 floppy drive already installed in your computer
- USB keyboard
- USB mouse (NOT the PS/2 mouse that plugs into the kbd!)
- CRT or Flat Panel monitor
- PCI cards
You CAN leave any installed PCI cards in place.
No guarantee that their drivers will work, but
the machine will at least boot (this is an improvement
from the past).
- 4 (four) trashable/blank floppy disks
Might be wise to have a couple of additional floppies in case
there are any corruption problems with the first set.
For example, of you see an error message along the lines of
"range check failure" when trying to run something from a floppy
it's very likely that you have a bad floppy.
- A copy of your favorite distro
Aside from lower-level kernel stuff and X server any distribution
of Linux should work fine.