Gentoo/MIPS tends to not be distributed in .iso format as very few MIPS systems can boot from ISO9660 formatted CDs.

SGI PROMs expect to find the same SGI disklabel on CDs much like they do on hard drives… the kernel is either stored in the volume header, or it can be stored on an EFS (or XFS on newer systems) partition on the CD. We do provide CD images for these, but they are not .iso images technically. The current LiveCD for SGI hasn’t been updated in some time.

The Lemote hardware is a very rare exception, the PROM can communicate with a USB CD-ROM drive and understand ISO9660, however even there… x86-specific features such as El Torito are not supported, so it’s more convenient to provide the bare kernel and an optional userland image which can be placed on a USB HDD or burned to CD as the user desires.

Cobalt hardware has no ability at all to communicate with a CD-ROM drive, nor is it able tu understand ISO9660.

As for x86 stuff… haven’t downloaded a recent .iso in a while, although I do have one for AMD64 which I used to boot the new desktop for the first time.

vk4hdo

BTW i managed to get the ralink bug with mint resolved. Just installed my favourite mempis

cheers