[rescue] Sources of IRIX?

[John Hudak]

So I am not sure how to instantiate what you are saying here...
Get the LM files, edit it to reflect hostID/liscense type/(product
name?).....and then what?

I have a bare iron machine with a clean disk...(on a clear disk you can
seek forever....)

Thanks
J


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Alex D <azd30 at telus.net> wrote:

> You need to google for mipsPro FlexLM license files... It's been a while
> since
> I played around with them, but it's a pretty simple text file, that ties
> products to a hostID and a license type / expiry timeframe. I can go back
> through my notes if anyone cares... Just edit with vi, and restart the
> license
> manager...
>
> For installation you need to start off with the base CD's for a release and
> then apply the updates. IIRC SGI called them foundations and overlays?
> Package
> dependencies are very important in IRIX and the install/upgrade tool
> strictly
> enforces this.
>
> Again it's been a while since I played with this so my info might not be
> 100%
> accurate.
>
> Now if anyone has a personal iris 4d series that they want rid of let me
> know.
> Even better would be a 3100 series (68k).
>
> Cheers
> Alex
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 8, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Steven M Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/08/2017 10:38, Brendan Shanks wrote:
> >> The Internet Archive has a good amount of IRIX CDs:
> >> https://archive.org/search.php?query=irix
> >
> > Thanks, I meant to send a link last night.
> >
> > There's other interesting SGI software there. MIPSpro compilers will
> > complain verbosely, but work in "demo mode" without a license. And there
> > are general and model-specific demos, scientific libraries, 3D toolkits,
> > etc.
> >
> > Viz:
> > https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-downloads&and[]=SGI
> >
> > --S.
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