[H-GEN] Installing IRIX onto an Indy - now scsi burner

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day David
I have a Sony external scsi drive. It burns best on 1x though it is rated as a
4x.
I will bring it to Humbug on Saturday.
Or
If you want it NOW, no worries. You can pick it up from home. I will leave it
in the garage, on the table next to the freezer if I am out.

828 Oxley Rd Corinda
3379 1048
cheers
Tony

David Jericho wrote:

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> I've finally admitted defeat. I'm installing IRIX 6.5 onto a SGI Indy,
> and couldn't get it for the life of me to install of a Linux box
> running rsh.
>
> I had an older Pioneer CDROM at home that I know works with Unix
> systems (i.e. allows booting), but as it turns out, it's broken and
> won't detect media in the drive.
>
> So I beg and borrow a single speed CDROM known to work with SGI
> systems, and set about installing. Boots fine off the original media,
> starts installing, and due to an inability to get the original
> foundation cds for IRIX, I burn a copy.
>
> Argh! The CD drive has a problem reading good quality Kodak CDR discs.
>
> So, here's my plea. Does anyone know how to get the IRIX installers
> rsh to interact with Linux's, or have a good quality external SCSI CDROM
> that they'd be willing to let me borrow sometime to install with?
>
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> David Jericho
> Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd
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