Hi

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:18:36PM +0000, germ mipseb wrote:

Hello,

      So far the only *NIX I have been able to boot a rather dated
miniboot image from debian 4.0 etch on my Silicon Graphics Interactive
Indy R4600 128mb of ram 8bit Newport graphics. Every other
installation media has failed. The issue here is that Debian etch is
only pointing towards the most recent mirrors of Debian (Bookworm /
Trixie / Sid) and I cannot change the mirrors to anything else. When
asked on OFTC in #debian-mips I was told to seek advice on the mailing
list. What would be the easiest way to install Debian on IP-22, IP-30,
or IP-32?

You will be out of luck. MIPS Big endian support has been dropped after
Debian 8 - So the last release is Jessie. The MIPSel port has been
dropped and replaced with MIPS64el which requires at least a MIPSr2.

This caused most of the Debian/MIPS user not beeing able to run any Debian/MIPS(el) based stuff anymore as all historic machines like SGI Indy/Indigo2/O2/O200/O2000, Digital Decstations and Siemens-Nixdorf RM200/300/400 are all unsupported after Jessie.

Newer hardware/CPUs are not really available in the general market so Debian/MIPSel is in constant decline for a couple of years.

Flo
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