The collected works of crystalfire

I wanted to thank everyone on nekochan- your board has helped me:

-Repair a blinking red light on an octane
-Unpack install data form CD-rom's / CD-images
-Learn to netboot with DINA
-Format with fx (Okay so its not that bad, but the boot command over network was just a bit cryptic_)
-Install IRIX and nekoware (oh how I love ze nekoware packages!)
-Remove passwords from hardware
-And tons of other bits of information


Thank you all- the search function on this forum is freaking awesome.
I have wanted one of these systems for years and finally broke down and bought a couple.... now I want more.

I have an indigo 2 that did not want to netboot;

PROM output was:
is not a valid file to boot OR something about magic I forget the exact phrase

I quickly slammed "setenv debug 4" in to the prom to get some better output

What I kept seeing was something like;

tftprecv: pkt from server port 65528, not -22

Figuring that the system was not liking something about the TFTP port settings- I added this little gem to /etc/rc.local on DINA

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmin=20000
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmax=32767

( Source was; http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/faq ... nt-failing )

I only thought it would be worth posing because the PROM output had me thinking something was wrong with my source files... not the TFTP server
Hopefully this will save someone else the trouble later on...

Version output from prom;

"PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.1 Rev B IP22 Sep 16, 1993 (BE)"