[rescue] Indig2 install blues

[Larry Snyder]

Be careful here.  The old lunchbox sony sun cd drive would not boot a
crimson.  I^2 may vary.  plex & tosh drives (the _right_ tosh -- see the
faq) will work.
-ls-

"Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com> wrote:
> From: "root" <venabledavid at qwest.net> sez ...
> 
> > Is it safe to assume that if a cdrom drive boots a Sun it will boot a
> > Indigo2?
> 
> It worked for me.
> 
> > I have whats looks to be a correctly set up external cdrom,
> > Irix 5.3 on Iso, and the correct commands. Hinv sees the cdrom as scsi
> > address 4.
> >
> > When I run the "boot -f" command it whines that the header lable is not
> > correct and that there is no bootable media in the drive.
> 
> I don't know about 5.3, but I used information at the following URLs to
> install IRIX 6.5 on my Indigo2...
> 
> http://rsuss1.rnd.runnet.ru/sgi/install/42top.html
> 
> http://rsuss1.rnd.runnet.ru/sgi/index.html
> 
> http://capderec.udg.es:81/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/SGI_Admin/IA_DiskFiles/
> 
> http://capderec.udg.es:81/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/SGI_Admin/@Generic__Colle
> ctionView
> 
> http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu/library/SGI_bookshelves/SGIindex/SGI_Admin.html
> 
> Plus, of course, some help from this list.
> 
> In my case, I think the boot command was somewhat more complex; IIRC, it
> invoked sash and fx by name from the CD-ROM.  I'm damned if I remember it,
> but I think it's on one of those Russian or Spanish pages....
> 
> -Shel
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