[rescue] Sources of IRIX?

[John Hudak]

OK, cool...thanks to all for the pointers/help.
For this first go round, I think I'll do the CD shuffle, there can't be
*that* many.....thought....oh, DVDs wernt available the I don't think...on
second thought....

J


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Steven M Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com> wrote:

> On 02/08/2017 12:54, Alex D wrote:
> > For installation you need to start off with the base CD's for a release
> and
> > then apply the updates. [...]
>
> Didn't think about the documentation and instructions...
>
> A lot of the original SGI documentation was mirrored before they took
> down the old TechPubs webite last year. See
> http://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/0650/admin/index.html for IRIX 6.5.
>
> Here are two general write-ups for installation:
>
>     http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/6.5inst.html
>     http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_6.5.x_Install_on_Octane
>
> For model-specific boot commands, see
> http://software.majix.org/irix/install-bootcd.shtml.
>
> Those write-ups are good for using the CD images, but this will involve
> a lot of disc swapping. There are some write-ups for doing installations
> over the network which you might be interested in, from various
> platforms. But you might need a running IRIX system to pull the packages
> off the CDs if you can't get at a flavor of Linux that can read the EFS
> filesystems. Uh, consider it an opportunity to do a trial run, get the
> packages, and then do it "right" ...
>
> VM: http://nekochan.net/wiki/Using_DINA_for_network_installation_of_IRIX
> Linux:
> http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/irix/remote-irix-6.5-installation-
> from-
> linux.html
> FreeBSD:
> http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_Network_Installation_from_
> FreeBSD_to_an_Octane
> OSX: http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_Network_Installation_from_OS_X
> Indy (IRIX):
> http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_Network_Installation_to_a_SGI_Fuel
>
> From hard drive: http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_
> Installation_from_Hard_Drive
>
> And for what to do after installation:
>
>     http://nekochan.net/wiki/IRIX_Installation_and_Customization
>
>
> Good luck,
> --S.
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