Gentoo on a Quad PPro or SGI Indy?

Pasoa2000 · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

So I've got two machines sitting in my basement right now...

1) A Quad (ALR Quad6) Pentium Pro (200 Mhz, 1MB Cache, 4 Chips) with 256 MB 4-way interleaved RAM. What's the opinion on performace this machine would give? Comparable to say.... a PIII 500? Or not at all?

2) Next question - anyone know anything about possible MIPS support? I'd love to get gentoo to compile onto the indy, it's such a ncie box, but I don't really care for IRIX....

delta407

Pasoa2000 · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

Not so "little though" ;-)

Take a look at some pictures of "trinity" here :

http://studentweb.providence.edu/~slinco01/ALR/alr_quad6.htm

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 4:07 am Post subject:

Okay, it's a freakin' huge web server (I have a retired dual-CPU IBM box, and it's also beast), but it's "little" in the sense of serving capability compared to, say, an Athlon XP 1800+, a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz (GCC3, ya know), or my desktop (dual P3 1.0 GHz). Still can't compete with big numbers.

I wouldn't try to make it a desktop, but it would work well in a highly-multithreaded environment (such as being a web server or database server). Actually, pretty much any server deployment should work well.
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Ozymandias · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 9:56 am Post subject:

hi,

actually I am curious too about getting gentoo onto something different then alpha ppc or i86. What if I allready have linux running on it, and go from there by starting with bootstrapping etc? I did this ones to convert a redhad (i86) server into a gentoo server by installing gentoo on a second hard drive using the redhat install as bootstrap, so I didn't use any binairies from the gentoo install, or did I? Now that I think about it, during the bootstrap I mountend the gentoo cdrom and chrooted into it, so i probably used the gentoo gcc and binutils

. But if I link these from the original linux install, I should be able to bootstrap, can this be done? or are packages i86 ppc and alpha specific?

greetz Ozy

karl11 · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 469 Location: Raleigh, NC

I do not like IRIX much at all....however, I love Gentoo Linux. I have an SGI Octane and would love to get Gentoo running on it. What are the chances of someone much wiser than me stringing a Gentoo version together for MIPS-based processors?

klieber · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject:

moving to gentoo suggestions since the predominant topic of this thread is a MIPS port of Gentoo.

--kurt
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klieber · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:27 pm Post subject:

Simba · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 60

hey, is there any progress with gentoo on s390? we have s390 running with
suse 7.0 , but I am not so happy with this dist. also I would like to try gentoo
on this big machine. or can I help something?

cahya