Re: Ok...FINALLY got the Indy...
> Ok...wiped the second disk and am partitioning it now. Am I correct in
> thinking that I can use fx -x to set it up like an option drive, add a
> second efs partition, then adjust the sizes of the others as noted
> above? How big should each be and what are they for? Coming from Alpha,
> this sure looks quite a bit like our MILO booting method (where you need a
> small FAT partition to hold the boot loader). I just want to avoid having
> two 2GB paritions if I'm only using a small portion of one for booting
> from...
All you need is 1 partition for root and 1 for swap, if you want additional
ones, you can add them.
> > * Get a kernel like 'vmlinux-2.2.14-r4x00-cvs-INDY.ecoff'
>
> Ok...where do I find this? I also need a URL for the tarball...
Maybe easier to check out oss.sgi.com - lots of info there, including a
complete ready-to-install redhat 5.2 distro.
> > * Use 'dvhtool' to drop the kernel into the volume header on the 2nd
> > disk. Something along these lines:
> > dvhtool -v add vmlinux-2.2.14-r4x00-cvs-INDY.ecoff linux
> /dev/rdsk/dks0d2vh
I just ftp'd the kernel from the box connected to the net to the Indy root
partition.
> > * Set up a dhcp server somewhere on the lan using something like this:
> Ugh! I forgot how to get the hardware address! Any
> tips? Nevermind...just found it :-P
I cheated here as well. I passed args to the kernel to tell it its own IP,
NFS root partition and gateway. That allowed the kernel on the irix drive to
load and then access a remote nfs drive for install.
> > * Remove the IRIX disk from the system
> > * Change the SCSI ID of the other disk to '1'
I didn't do either of these!
>
> Is this really necessary? Couldn't I alter the environment vars in sash
> (SystemPartition and OSLoadPartition)?
>
> > You don't *have* to go through the 'dvhtool' part if you
> > don't want to, but if you don't you'll always be having to boot off of
> the
> > network or have a efs partition on the disk that you can put the kernel
> on to
> > and then boot to that. I'm hoping to at some point be able to figure out
> the
> > format of that volume header and be able to write something like dvhtool
> to
> > allow you to modify it.
>
> I'll look into this once I get booted up and running. I've helped Alpha
> out a lot, so maybe I can apply some of that knowledge here... :-) I'm
> assuming docs are lacking on the format of the volume header, but other
> than that, what would help to figure this out?
I kept my IRIX drive since it was a work machine. Its there OS so I left it
on there. The second drive already existed and was already blank!! So I now
have a dual-boot system.
> Must be nice :-) My Irix install seems ok thusfar. It boots and runs
> fine, despite me playing with the second drive. I'm lucky for that since
> I cannot re-install due to lack of media :-P
Anyone else think IRIX thrashes its drives too much? Seems to take forever
for anything to load its got 160MB of RAM or something like that.
Now that it works, I can load debian, but I got pissed at my windows machine
and got the OK to whipe Win95 off and load Linux, now the Indy is pretty
useful. I wonder if they know you can buy those things for about $50 these
days.
-- Evan
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