Getting Started, Documentation, Tips & Tricks

. . . Spent like 45 minutes following that guide, swapping out cd's and watching hard dirve activity. If its not there, then where did it go. . .

I guess Ill erase the drive and try again.

That stuff sucks and it makes these threads worthless in the future. Could you please just resize the shots to a resonable size and upload them to the thread itself ?

There's nothing worse than trying to solve a problem, finding an old thread which is exactly the answer, then finding that the solution is on some long-gone "hosting" site.

Are you sure you got the disk partitioned right? You might want to have a look at this: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&fname=/SGI_Admin/IA_DiskFiles/ch01.html

I don't think I had the hard drive partitioned right. I went over the install instructions, but used all the install cd's this time around instead of just installing the base set like the guide suggested. Seems to be working fine.
Im so glad to finally have a working system.
Thanks to everyone here who helped me to get this working.

delete kernname and remove the slash from unix


lose the c:

either way, from inside sash try:

Glad it's finally working for you! OS installation can have a pretty steep learning curve, something easily forgotten as the industry gets closer to a monoculture (or tri-culture).

In addition to the netboot/installation process, DINA is setup to act as a local nekoware repository.