Complete information regarding supported mips/mipsel machines can be found at Linux MIPS HOWTO. The purpose of this section is to describe the systems supported by the boot disks. Currently only DECstations with R3000 and R4000/R4400 CPUs are supported by the Debian installation system on little endian MIPS. The Debian installation system works on the following machines: System TypeCPUCode-name Debian subarchitecture DECstation 5000/1xx R3000 3MIN r3k-kn02 DECstation 5000/150 R4000 3MIN r4k-kn04 DECstation 5000/240 R3000 3MAX+ r3k-kn02 DECstation 5000/260 R4400 3MAX+ r4k-kn04 Personal DECstation 5000/xx R3000 Maxine r3k-kn02 Personal DECstation 5000/50 R4000 Maxine r4k-kn04 Linux/MIPS also works on the DECstation 5000/200, but this is not supported by the Debian installation system currently. Serial console is available on all supported DECstations (9600 bps, 8N1). For using serial console, you have to boot the installer image with the "console=ttySx" kernel parameter (with "x" being the number of the serial port you have your terminal connected to - usually "2", but "0" for the Personal DECstations). On 3MIN and 3MAX+ (DECstation 5000/1xx, 5000/240 and 5000/260) local console is available with the PMAG-BA and the PMAGB-B graphics options. If you would like to have support for other subarchitectures, please contact the debian-mips mailing list. If you have a Linux system to use as serial terminal, an easy way is to run cu (part of the uucp package) on it. Example: cu -l /dev/ttyS1 -s 9600 where the option "-l" (line) sets the serial port to use and "-s" (speed) sets the speed for the connection (9600 bits per second).