[geeks] Pointers for installing Irix on Indigo2

[James Sharp]

> I have an Indigo 2 without an internal CD-ROM drive, I also have the CDs
> needed for the install, but what should I set the CD-ROM for (ID=6?) 512
> byte sector a requirement? Any special concerns/considerations?
>
> The CDs I have are 6.5.10 and came with the system.
>
> Any consideration WRT HD? Should boot device be set to a particular ID?
>

I've always done my irix installs with bootdisk=0 & cdrom=6.  And one
thing I've noticed is that if you use a particularly fast cdrom drive,
you'll get sporatic errors when you change CDs...but the system always
gets over them.