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

[Adam Michlin]

Yes, a public thank you to Andy for saving my Indigo R3000!

Now I just need to figure out how to install a C compiler on Irix 5.3. 
Not as easy as I expected!

     -Adam

On 1/14/2019 8:46 AM, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic 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.
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> 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.
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> I ran out of time, but I am targeting next Feb workshop to:
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> - 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)
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> If anyone else is interested in SGI please come up for Feb.
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> 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.
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> Adam logging into his Indigo for the very first time ever, with IRIX 5.3
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> 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!
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> See you Feb.
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> -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:
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>>> 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.
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>> Check the left board by model #.
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>> 			- Ethan
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