From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESRpV-0001AQ-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9K4Cor0002411; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:12:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9K4CnjG011837; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:12:50 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39] helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESRpn-0006WO-Jx; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp04414054pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net[69.140.185.48]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005102004151801500hqluje>; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:19 +0000 Message-ID: <435719D8.6020407@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:15:20 -0400 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-mips] Gentoo/MIPS SGI LiveCD RC5 release Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d27499b1-f9f0-4212-9786-f1cafb01c249 X-Archives-Hash: 5cfb2b858f4eeddb2d78684e7eab21a5 After lots of tinkering, testing and other odd n' ends, I released on Tuesday a new revision of the SGI LiveCD. Like its predecessor, RC4, this is a single CD that will boot and bring up several completely different SGI systems to a state where an install can be started. This is one of those golden states long desired in the Linux/MIPS community, as previously, the only other bootable CD's capable of doing this is IRIX install media. This CD is still considered RC for the time begin as several of the supported systems can be tricky at times to get started. Most notably, the SGI Origin (IP27) series. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this CD is in its creation -- it was largely built using the upcoming 2.0 release of gentoo's release engineering tool, Catalyst. Much thanks goes to Eric Edgar (rocket) and Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2) of the gentoo-releng team for their assistance on the Catalyst2 side of things (this helped to nail several bugs in cat2 as well). Additional thanks is extended to Stanislaw Skowronek (Skylark) for his ARCLoad (sys-boot/arcload) [bootloader], sgibootcd (sys-boot/sgibootcd) [CD Image Creator], and getdvhoff (sys-boot/getdvhoff) [utility] tools used in this CD, or in its creation, as well as to 'learath' of #mipslinux for SGI Origin testing access. More info can be found in the README regarding questions, comments and bugs. Initially, this can be found in my dev directory here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/releases/livecd-rc5/ But it will soon be up onto the mirrors under the experimental/mips folder. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list