[rescue] Indig2 install blues

[Sheldon T. Hall]

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