Shane, I was a bit late on this one, but having been down the path with this about 3 years ago, I maybe able to help. I have used debain and gentoo on both my indy and O2, but I really wanted to see what they could do given their natural OS as I was interested in the indy's video capabilities. Vino is(was) a project to get the indy cam working, at the time it was only doing stills not motion video, unfortunately all I ever got was a black image. I managed to find somebody with irix, and went to install it (google comes in handy with a disc partitioning issue when doing this!). I found that the irix I had was not very stable on the indy, but was good on the O2. Also when I got to the gui on the indy my motion video from the cam was..... black! Lucky I had a spare indy cam, which fixed this. For a monitor I hacked a PC VGA HD15 connector on to it, I now see there are sites with wiring diagrams that look better than my 3 in the morning hack. You can get away with a sun monitor, as I'm sure I had one connected at some point in time to her. A few gotcha's you may not of known about, the discs are in EFS format, not ISO, sash does not like iso and EFS has a fixed block size of 512B, the EFS formatted CD's are just like removable irix partitions. I think I was using 2 GB drives for each OS that I was testing, and from memory the drive id needs to be 1 as the controller is 0, I may be getting confused with other strange hardware I have used. Good luck! jono!! PS. Hamilton amateur radio club market day: 26th August at claudelands events centre, doors open at 10am. May see some of you there.