[rescue] Getting an OS on an IRIS Indigo?

[Geoff Koehler]

Hi All,

An Indigo (or any of the R3K power series boxes) will boot from a CD no 
problem, but you need to set it at 512K.  I have done this.  The best 
drive for the task is a toshiba XM3401B.

Cheers,
	Geoff

Geoff Koehler
Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Home of the SART Observatory
http://207.195.94.13/sart



On Friday, April 23, 2004, at 08:49 PM, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:

> Also, I am not sure there is a way to mount the IRIX install CDs on 
> non-IRIX
> machines, although it is possible this is changed?
>
>
> I could've sworn these *would* boot off CDroms, you just need an 512b 
> CD
> drive... anyone verify this?
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