Nekonomicon - For download: IRIX netboot appliance

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 12, 2008, 2:14 p.m...

Hi.

So you wanted to netboot your SGI and install IRIX but you think its to complicated to set up a netboot server?
You would love to have nekosync download and unpack all Nekoware for you but you haven't gotten around setting it up?
Have you ever needed a server that you can share files between your SGI, Macs and PCs?

In that case DINA might be something for you.

Get the full story and download it here http://zachrisson.net/DINA .
[Edit 2009-07-18]URL above is outdated, use the URLs below.
Documentation here:
http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/SGI_related_files/DINA/Documentation/DINA_Documentation.html
Download here
http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/SGI_related_files/DINA/DINA1.0.zip

//deBug

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josehill
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From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 12, 2008, 2:40 p.m...

Bravo, but unable to reach the site at the moment. Could it be that 2158 Nekochanners are trying to reach it at once?

zizban
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From Cheshire, MA
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Wrote the following at Aug. 12, 2008, 4:05 p.m...

Same here.

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 12, 2008, 5:43 p.m...

Ohhoo Bummer!! MY connection just went south.
Im Uploading it to an external site.
Takes some time as IP going out from me right now is going in snail pace.

Here is the info :
http://web.telia.com/~u58007278/

Download it here http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4340839/DINA
If you download the torrent, be patient as the my upload seems to be really broken right now. Grrrr, need to speak to my ISP
Great timing ! :-(

//Harry

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VenomousPinecone
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From Northern Nevada
Who joined June 20, 2005, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 12, 2008, 9:37 p.m...

very cool... I got to check this out when I get some time with the vm server.

NOTE You cannot use Virtual Disk Manager to create or to shrink physical hard drives.

Thomas W.
From Germany/NRW/Bonn
Who joined Sept. 9, 2003, 11:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 13, 2008, 1:06 a.m...

I know .zip and .rar and .tar

...but which programm will open a .torrent???

joerg
From In an origin rack - Germany
Who joined Jan. 8, 2004, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 13, 2008, 5:34 a.m...

Thomas W. wrote: I know .zip and .rar and .tar

...but which programm will open a .torrent???

A torrent client like bittorent, Azureus, Bitcomet, ytorrent or one of the countless others. The original one was written in python and years ago it works also on IRIX.

regards
Joerg

http://www.irixworld.net

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 13, 2008, 11:21 a.m...

It turned out that my ADSL modem had gone south, probably the summer heat was to much for it.
I'll go for modem hunt tomorrow, but at least the torrent is now seeded by other so should be possible to download.

Thomas, torrent files doesn't contain anything except a link.
The link allows a peer-to-peer program to find and download files.
The most popular and efficient bittorrent software for the PC platform is micro torrent http://www.utorrent.com/

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josehill
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From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 13, 2008, 12:01 p.m...

Hi Thomas,

As the others have indicated, a .torrent file contains a link that peer-to-peer clients know how to handle. There are lots of clients to choose from. Once you get a Torrent client, you'll be able to download deBug's virtual machine, which arrives as a 300 megabyte .zip file. It might take a while to finish the download -- it took twelve hours for mine to finish, but as more people "seed" the torrent, the speed should improve. (For example, since I was probably one of the first people to start downloading, I was only getting throughput around 0.5 kB/s. Now that I have the file, however, I'm pushing it to other folks at 50 kB/s. 1.5 GB pushed so far!)

To run the virtual machine, you'll need either the free VMware Player for Linux and Windows , or the commercial VMware Fusion for Mac , or the commercial VMware Workstation for Linux/Windows .

Best regards,
JH

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 13, 2008, 2:11 p.m...

josehill wrote: I was only getting throughput around 0.5 kB/s. Now that I have the file, however, I'm pushing it to other folks at 50 kB/s. 1.5 GB pushed so far!)
JH

Thanks for helping out JH!
My Modem is shot,the uplink hardly work at all, thats why it was so slow when i posted the torrent.
I borrowed another modem today so i could complete the upload, but had to switch back to my old defect modem to get the IP TV going so my daughter could get her dose of project runway.
Hopefully I'll get a new modem tomorrow that will do both IP TV and upload and then I''ll be back seeding again.
Thanks to everyone that has stepped in and helped out with seeding for me.

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stuart
From Cambridge, UK
Who joined Aug. 23, 2004, 5:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 14, 2008, 7:40 a.m...

Oh - shiny!

My site's back up again now after a long outage due to my RAID array suddenly dropping several disks at once (I shouldn't have used five disks from the same batch...) - so it's at least possible to get a screenshot without a version warning

Might it be worth including sgisync too, to allow people to auto-download any patches for the version of IRIX they're about to install?

Great work,

stuart

https://blog.stuart.shelton.me/

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 15, 2008, 9:52 a.m...

stuart wrote: Oh - shiny!

My site's back up again now after a long outage due to my RAID array suddenly dropping several disks at once (I shouldn't have used five disks from the same batch...) - so it's at least possible to get a screenshot without a version warning

I cinda prefer that over the "old version" varning 8-)

I'll update the nekosync version on the next version of DINA

stuart wrote: Might it be worth including sgisync too, to allow people to auto-download any patches for the version of IRIX they're about to install?

Great work,
stuart

Good idea, I'll have a look at it for the next version.

Misc info:
I have a new ADSL modem now so I'm back seeding and my webpage is accessible again.

If you used the console in DINA you may have noticed it is not using US keymapping.
It's Swedish, I havent found info on how to restore the US keymapping in NetBSD, anyone ?
But I was able to restore it on the graphical consoles so if it is big problem for you just start the graphics and use the aterm console.
Not that you should ever need to use the console but one never know, somenone might just have to use the CLI or they wont feel like a real man

//deBug

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josehill
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From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 15, 2008, 1:05 p.m...

Thanks again for putting this together, deBug. Would you have a "cookbook" of how DINA differs from a default NetBSD installation, e.g. configs, any extra sw installed? Just curious...

PS. 2.5 GB seeded...

deBug
From Sweden
Who joined Feb. 27, 2006, 1:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 17, 2008, 9:32 a.m...

josehill wrote: Thanks again for putting this together, deBug. Would you have a "cookbook" of how DINA differs from a default NetBSD installation, e.g. configs, any extra sw installed? Just curious...

Mostly changes to config files in /etc and some of my own scripts in /usr/dina
There is a copy of the changed config files in /usr/dina/cfgfiles/factory if you are curious.
The only "inovative" stuff is a script that is started at boot that monitors BOOTP request and if a BOTTP request from a SGI computer is found the DHCP server is configured to accept it and the computer is given an unique name and IP number.

josehill wrote: PS. 2.5 GB seeded...

Thats great, thanks!

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tomlurge
From Hamburg, Germany
Who joined Aug. 26, 2008, 10:10 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 10, 2008, 12:17 p.m...

some more seeding would be nice! or has the file been made available for download in the meantime? at least on nekoware i couldn't find it. c'mon, it doesn't cost you too much to seed a little, or are your servers under such heavy load?

btw, it would also be nice to find more of the unspeakable :shock:

on torrent trackers...

goodOldBoy :Octane:

rulezOkay

willHaveToGo :Onyx2:

wouldBeNice

recondas
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Wrote the following at July 12, 2009, 1:49 p.m...

fez wrote:

ARGH! After a regular install of the 6.5.23 on my O2 and a reboot the workstation start with no problem, ask me the root password but after this display only the X cursor, anything on the screen...

What's the switch for "chkconfig desktop" set to?

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ritchan
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Wrote the following at July 17, 2009, 2:41 p.m...

Direct download so you don't have to wait for seeds:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8f38 ... 4aa771dc95

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deBug
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Wrote the following at July 18, 2009, 12:20 p.m...

ritchan wrote:

Direct download so you don't have to wait for seeds:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8f38 ... 4aa771dc95

Thanks!

I updated the original post to point here http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/IRIX/DINA/DINA1.0.zip
:arrow:

***Update***
DINA is now located at
http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/SGI_relat ... ation.html
and
http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/SGI_related_files/DINA/

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dingofarmer
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Wrote the following at July 23, 2009, 3:55 p.m...

This program is simply amazing, worked the first time. I am in the process of doing a few network installs.

How can i have it update to the latest version of nekosync?

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MrWeedster
Who joined Aug. 1, 2006, 4:29 a.m.
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Wrote the following at May 3, 2010, 11:52 a.m...

Hi.

I recently installed my Fuel with DINA flawlessly - All installed perfectly and all was set up good.
Now i got two new disks which i put into it and wanted to install irix to one of it.

I throw on the vmware player to start up the dina installation i recently succesfull installed irix from.
Theres some error msg about the dhcp there which i didnt couldnt look after cause they were to STDOUT on boot.
I started it manually and it complains about a line in dhcpd.conf:

Code:

  /etc/dhcpd.conf line 12: expecting numeric vlaue.
  
  hardware ethernet from;
  
  ^

It wants to have a numeric value there? K i look into it i thought.
So it wants to have a mac adress here - There is nothing standing in dina doc about it.... courious....
Well ok here i go and write in my mac from my fuel into the file, save and restart it manually.

On my Fuel i now try to "Install System Software" but it wont load - it gets a netaddr and hangs there.
On my dhcpd i get:

Code:

  /etc/dhcpd.conf line 12: expecting numeric vlaue.
  
  hardware ethernet from;
  
  ^

WTF!?!?!?! i wrote it in, wtf is up?

So i go there and what do i see? It made another entry:

Code:

  host iris61{
  
  hardware ethernet from;
  
  fixed-address 192.168.0.63;
  
  }

I can redo this a billion times, it just counts the hostnames up.

WTF is wrong with this? It was working a few weeks ago - Im so upset of this.

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