[rescue] Sources of IRIX?

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, John Hudak wrote:

> well,ok, I don't know what I am getting myself into, but...Ive done the
> floppy shuffle with Slack (actually my favorite OS over the years) and I
> don't mind doing the CD shuffle with SGI, but, after about the 4-5th time
> it gets a little old.....so, If you would be so kind to send me a copy of
> the HOWTO, It would  be very much appreciated!
> An IRIS install server seems to be the ticket.
> Much appreciated.

I can't seem to find it either in my homedir or through Google, but I did
find some notes on a change that I made here:

         http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2003-April/084767.html

And I have my install server VM (running OpenBSD 5.1, so it's at least a
few years old).

There's this HOWTO which fills in the rest:

         http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/irix/remote-irix-6.5-installation-from-linux.html

If your Linux distribution doesn't have an EFS module ready (CentOS 7
doesn't), you can probably get away with installing the source for the
running kernel, adding the following to the kernel .config file, and
running 'make modules'

CONFIG_EFS_FS=m

With a little luck, you'll be able to modprobe the resulting efs.ko.

If you'd like to try the NFS installation (instead of the default
rsh/rcp), I probably have NFS-eneabled kernels for at least IP28,
IP22/IP24 and IP30.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA