The collected works of ducks

Do you want to do a compleet reinstall or just an upgrade?

I you want to upgrade just transfer the files via ftp/nfs or whatever works best for you.

For a compleet netinstall you need tftp, bootps and rsh. I'v done a few netinstalls from freebsd. MacOSX should be similar. This is roughly how it goes:

put cdrom content on nfs share (per cd)

cp sa fx.64 sash64 miniroot/unix.IPxx /tftpboot

enable tftp rsh in inetd.conf
restart inetd

start bootps

Boot sgi

Stop for maintenace
enter command monitor
printenv
setenv netaddr <ip>

add following to /etc/bootptab
indigo2:ha=08006909f00a:cs=mira:ds=mira:sm=255.255.255.0:gw=almach:hn:

add host to /etc/hosts

restart bootps

hostname
ha = hardware address (without the dots)
cs = Cookie server address list
ds = domain name server
sm = subnetmask
gw = gateway

command monitor:
boot bootp():/tftpboot/sash64 bootp():/tftpboot/fx.64

network install

hostname (full!!!! hostname)
dir /tftpboot

make new filesystem =yes
block size = 4096

admin
sh

mkdir /root/installtmp

rcp -r <installserver>:/dist files /root/installtmp

exIt

from ............
conflicts .......
go .......

I couldn't do a full netinstall, couse csh on FreeBSD is not exactly the same as SGI's
This is from memory so i might have forgotten something

I tried it a while back with a 3com card (1000baseSX). It was the same as the SGI one (Altheon chipset), but different firmware. No such luck

I tried a 3com with alteon chipset. Doesn't work on 6.5.20