[geeks] ARGH Irix install fun (no, not bad hardware...)

[Lionel Peterson]

Hello all,

I'm trying to install Irix 6.5 on an Indigo 2, but i have 2 *bare*
drives that I want to install the OS on...

Here is what I have done so far (based on
http://futuretech.mirror.vuurwerk.net/6.5inst.html ):

After installing scsi CD (external controller, so controller 1, SCSI ID
6), I power on system, enter maint. mode...

Enter command 'boot f dksc(1,6,8)sash64' (standalone shell)

At shell prompt, enter 'boot f dksc(1,6,7)stand/fx.64 x'

And I should be at the Fx prompt, but all I see is:

SGI Version 6.5 ARCS BE64 Oct 11, 2000
fx: "device name" = (dksc)    <-- I press enter, taking default?
fx: ctlr# = (0)               <-- Again, enter to take default?
fx:: drive# = (1)             <-- Enter again...
...opening dksc(0,1,0)
fx: Warning: Failed to open SCSI(0)disk(1)part(10)

And then back to the "SGI Version 6.5 ARC..." line.

How do I get past this? Is it trying to say it can't find the drives?
THere should be two 9 gig HDs installed in the two internal 3 1/2"
slots...

Thanks in advance,




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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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