The collected works of kazaly

Hi all and a happy new year!
Well I finally got a Samsung SOG monitor and found a system screen:
welcome to o2 .... (and have a nice day??)
start, install, run diags, recover sys, command monitor and keybrd layout.
It's alive!
The cd drive still won't stay closed so I guess I'll be on the spanners soon.
Maybe my keyboard is non-functional too ... hmmm ... enter key works in command line enviro but no letter keys.
Start gives me:
"Boot file not found on device: scs1(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/sash
autoboot failed"
Diagnostics gives:
"Checking for distrib cd-rom on pci(0)scsi(0)cdrom(4)
dks0d4s8: drive not ready: media not present
ditto: drive not ready
Distrib cdrom not found. Booting installed IDE. Diagnostic tools not found.
Unable to continue"
So, after I get the cd drive going, it seems I'll need to load a distribution.
This would be the foundation disks I'm guessing?
I've now got 6.5 disks 1 and 2.
On another note, and totally separate from the above, I understand that cd-rom headers need to be specific for SGI.
Are there any tutes on the site about this?
I'll hunt up a PS2 keyboard tomorrow and take a look at the cd drive.
Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated round about now lol.

@ SAQ, Thanks very much for that, I have the 6.5.3 overlays n tools which came with the flat panel adapter.
As soon as I have a working cd drive they will be used as I need to do the pre-installation setup for 1600SW FPA.
I have also downloaded 6.5.22 overlays from SGI as well but have not as yet mastered the cd formatting techniques (still looking at the tute).
The development foundations and libraries would be a must have so I'll get to looking for those.
Do you have any specific recommendations about good compilers?
Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate the support.
IRIX on SGI is a pretty steep learning curve for a newb!

@ smj - thanks for that, I had been thinking along those lines and I can easily link a laptop to the o2.
I'll follow your link and see where it takes me ... hopefully to a functional machine