[SunRescue] OT: Irix installation on bare machine

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:20:30PM -0800, Christopher Byrne wrote:
> I read the getting started guide, and peruse the online docs, and hey,
> other than the docs being extremely vague it seems like it shouldn't be too
> hard.... except for one small problem. None of the documentation has the
> remotest connection to reality.
> It seems that the only way to do a bare install involves selecting every
> package on my 15 disk set by hand, inserting all of the CD's one at a time,
> and resolving every conflict and dependency issue manually, one at a time.
> Ok... I thouhgt to myself "I can do that, how many packages and dependencies
> can there be?". Whoa unto me the moron who mocs the computing gods twice in
> one night. Anyway to make a long story even longer I gave up after about an
> hour of "conflict resolution".
> Can anyone help me here? The machine is an 02, one disk, 128megs RAM, Irix
> 6.5 with overlays.
> Thanks,
> Chris Byrne

Much easier than that:

http://www.reputable.com/indytech.html#Partitioning

Its sad that out of all the commercial UNIXes, IRIX still has the
*shittiest* install procedure I've ever seen - you'd think they'd at
least have a whiz-bang spiffy graphical install by now.. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX