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.