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  • From: Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>
  • To: Sourcemage Users List <sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] SMGL on SGI Indy
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:30:19 +0100

On 20/01/04 17.45, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Arjan Bouter <one_step_ahead AT hotmail.com>:
> > Good question,
> >
> > I've got my hands on a 2nd hand IBM and was wondering how to get SMGL on
> > it
> > :-)
> >
> > any suggestions?
> > so far I've only worked with regular PC's/laptops and I'm getting tired
> > of
> > AIX...
>
> Well, the way I worked for the SPARC port is to get a Linux on there
> (Gentoo, in
> my case), but any *nix should work. Then setup somewhere (I used a partition
> mounted on /opt/smgl) to start installing packages compiled from source and
> of
> the versions in the grimoire to (I installed Sorcery on the Gentoo machine
> and
> told it to use INSTALL_ROOT, which puts it in /opt/cross-install/<arch>/ or
> some such). Then you can start using `chroot` to that directory and make
> sure
> the system is up-to-date, then edit your boot loader to mount a kernel from
> there and use that as the new root, and hope it works. If so, you can then
> work
> on making an ISO. ;)

Thanks, I think that sounds like a rather nice approach, and while
They do not have a CD-ROM, I will put up a boot image or whatever,
once I get it working.

/dossen

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