Hi, I got an O2 from a friend who was into graphics in school. Turns out it wasn't so easy for him to make use of it, and only when I looked into it did I discover that it isn't really set up for graphics at all. (only has audio I/O card, no expansion ports for video).
So I've wanted to put it to use. I successfully installed IRIX from the cds included, but I found that I was missing the proprietary CD with the compiling tools, and the pre-compiled IRIX binaries at nekochan were causing segmentation faults. So i tried out netBSD but the install scriptbroke<http://gnats.netbsd.org/46958>, and I didn't have any experience with BSDs so I couldn't complete the install. Just now I got Debian onto it, and while there was still a tricky part with partitioning (totally not automated, and nothing in the official installation manual) where the installer dropped me into an fdisk session without any instructions whatsoever, I was able to google the right way to partition it <http://www.pvv.org/~pladsen/Indy/HOWTO.html#h> and the installer was able to continue from that point in an automated fashion. My first intention is to set up an IRC server. Later I will like to try compiling on it, though with 128MB of ram it won't be compiling anything complex. I read on the project main page that systems are used by developers for testing, and a few are available at the moment. Since I've successfully diverted this from landfill, I figure that if it can be used by debian developers then I'll be putting it to good use and contributing to debian-mips in some small way. I'm just not sure if there is a need, or if that need can be filled by such a low-spec machine. Let me know how I can be involved in the mips port! -Adam
