[vcf-midatlantic] SGI Indigo help at tomorrow's workshop (Saturday)

[jsalzman at gmail.com]

I have three teal Indigo 2 computers. One with a fresh IRIX install, and
two others in as-is condition. Perhaps I can bring them in February. I just
need a reliable sync-on-green monitor and I have a 13w3 to VGA adapter.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 8:46 AM andy diller via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org wrote:

> The SGI Install area was actually a win, as we managed to go thru a bunch
> of drives and SCSI magic to get Adam's Indigo working with a fresh, full
> install of 5.3.
>
> We also pulled out the VCF's SGIs and discovered they have a Iris 4d,
> Indigo 1 R4k (may be elan) and a Teal Indigo2.
>
> I ran out of time, but I am targeting next Feb workshop to:
>
> - bring up some SCSI2SD drives for the VCF's SGI systems
> - boot them (if they work- we didn't test)
> - install fresh OS of 5.3 or 6.5.22 depending on RAM via my netboot (so no
> CDROM are required)
>
>
> If anyone else is interested in SGI please come up for Feb.
>
> I will also have my RS/6000 43P by then and will bring it to mess around
> with. I've gotten rid of 95% of my stuff (thanks for everyone that bid, won
> showed up and paid and took the stuff) and now I can focus on actual repair
> work and slow prepping for the festival.
>
>
> Some Photos:
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> Adam logging into his Indigo for the very first time ever, with IRIX 5.3
>
> Behind there you can see my MacBook, which was running the virtual server
> (debian box) that ran DHCP/BOOTP and TFTP which allowed a complete netboot
> and install on the SGIs. It will work with the Iris 4D, as I have one and
> the PROM is capable of doing it!
>
>
> See you Feb.
>
> -andy
>
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> > On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Just to you... thanks again!
> >> Are you sure 6.* will work? I seem to remember that I was told this is
> one of earliest models of the SGI Indigo (maybe R3000?) and might only go
> work with 5.*?
> >
> > If it is a R3K CPU board then your optical drive has to be 512 byte
> blocks, and you are limited to IRIX 5.3 I think.
> >
> > Check the left board by model #.
> >
> >                       - Ethan
> >
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