Hi there...
Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
Decstation4000s ?
I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
Linux on.
It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
bootloader.
It used to boot over a network.
what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
having played with some dec stations in the past... I'd recomend trying
netbsd...
joelja
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ian Molton wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> Decstation4000s ?
>
> I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> Linux on.
>
> It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> bootloader.
>
> It used to boot over a network.
>
> what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
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Hello Joel , Have they fianlly gotten the graphics engines
working for decstations ? Last time I played with BSD on
decstations there was -no- graphics capacities available .
I hope that has changed . Tia , JimL
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> having played with some dec stations in the past... I'd recomend trying
> netbsd...
>
> joelja
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ian Molton wrote:
>
> > Hi there...
> >
> > Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> > Decstation4000s ?
> >
> > I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> > Linux on.
> >
> > It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> > bootloader.
> >
> > It used to boot over a network.
> >
> > what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:03:13AM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> Decstation4000s ?
> I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> Linux on.
> It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> bootloader.
> It used to boot over a network.
> what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
Short answer: kernel hacking.
You might want to subscribe to [email protected] and visit
irc.openprojects.net #mipslinux, which are more appropriate fora for
this. There is also a site dedicated to Linux on DecStations at
http://decstation.unix-ag.org/
which distributes a port of 2.2.x to DecStations. It makes no reference
to DecStation 4000's so you may well be faced with porting it yourself.
Cheers,
Bill