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Hi,

I just received an O2 with a 9GB SCA harddisk (HP made) which the previous owner mounted (but never installed IRIX on it).
As it is a 10K O2, the SCSI ID of the HD is "2".
Hinv recognises the disk, but i can not use fx on it!

so help is very welcome...

Greetings TOM:-)

PS: Find two pictures attached, on one i have censored two emberassing Typos

Thanks rooprob, but there are no jumpers on the drive ...
TOM:-)

By the way, the O2 arrived in crumbles ...

Thanks for the welcome!
I allready got so much help and information on this forum! It is simply great!

If i pull the disk out and put it back in while i am in fx, i am able to exercise, repartition, label and so on, but on the next boot / start of fx the disk is again not operational. So i zeroed it out but still no good... will pm you for you offer of a SCSI drive.
TOM:-)

The Mayas created a calender that works until 2012, most computer programmers (including me) wrote programs in the 80ies that didn't even work after 2000 ...
PS: Maybe it is time to update the Maya calender to 1.1 and make it Y2K12 compatible ...
Many Greetings and a Happy 2013 TOM:-)

Thanks to "canavan" and his replacement HD my O2 is now working!
(After i zeroed the new drive with fx) i was able to install IRIX!
I also got a 195MHz CPU, which i will fit in later this week.

I glued the case of my O2 together, but she is still in a rather miserable shape

Does anyone have a replacement Skin-set (all the plastik parts) for me?
especially bad are the broken "On-Off" and "volume" buttons, which i can not fix.

Greetings and thanks for your great help!
TOM:-)

Hi,

I have a "Siemens" Indigo 3K (RW320) and i would like to install IRIX on it ... (4.0.5 or 5.3)

first i tried using my SCSI CDROM´s but both are to new and have no jumper for "512", so the indigo does not like them... (although my Indigo 4K does)

As i also own an Indigo2, and an O2, the next thing to try was to install IRIX over a network.

I followed the (very good) instructions of "Ian Mapleson" and on "majix's Obsolete Stuff" ...

I setup my Indigo2 (fresh 6.5 install with NFS) as the installserver (IP=192.168.1.6) and i setup the Indigo 3K with IP=192.168.1.12.
I mounted the Install CD on the Indigo 2 on /CDROM.

I was able to boot sash.IP12 and fx.IP12 over the network (using boot -f bootp()192.168.1.6:/CDROM/stand/fx.IP12).

If i choose to Install Software from the Indigo 3K Maintenance menu i have to answer "remote tape?" with "no" and then i am asked for a server IP and directory
I answer with "192.168.1.6:/CDROM/dist" and the install program is loaded over the network and the install menu is displayed. Also the default inst location is set to this directory.

But if i then choose "from" and the default "192.168.1.6:/CDROM/dist" i get the following network error: (see pic)



I tried this process with the Indigo 2 and the O2 as server, i tried a naked 6.5 and a 6.5.22 and i tried to install 4.0.5 and 5.3 everytime i got the same error ...

Every help is welcome!

TOM:-)

Hi,

No, i get the same error if i type "install default" ...

TOM:-)

Hi,

I am searching for a CDROM to install my Indigo 3K with. (as you may know, the Indigo 3K is picky about CDROMs)

Thanks TOM:-)

Thanks for all your tips and advice!

It turned out not to be a network problem at all!

First i zeroed out the HD on the Indigo (But i do not know if this did the trick, i don´t think so... but maybe? i had fx´d it a few times with 4.0.5 and 5.3)

Then in inst of 4.0.5 i choose "admin"
@diegel: thanks for the tip, but it seems there is no possibility to change the IP, or hostname in 4.0.5 in the admin menu
but there is a "set" command and this listed a few parameters including one called i think "dist" which was set to "tape" and the description said "Most recent installation source" after i changed it to "cd" everything suddenly worked!
(PS: i used setenv=notape before but without luck)

Maybe the zeroing of the HD did the trick or the changing of the "dist" parameter ...

Now 4.0.5 is installed on the 3K and i love it...

Thanks to you all!

Solved!

Hi fellow Nekochans,

To complete the Silicon Graphics part of my little onlinemuseum i am searching for the following workstations:

Specs are not that important, but they should work and look nice! (no parts missing / broken)

1) Indy
2) Indigo 2 purple
3) My dream: a Personal Iris

Please feel free to contact me!

PS: I am located in Austria (Vienna)

Hi jan-jaap,

I would love to have such a CAD company across the hallway!
But i can not complain, i got my Espressigo from my last Boss

Greetings TOM:-)

Hi,

The first real difference i saw when i switched to 24bit was the "console icon"
see attached pic.



TOM:-)

Hi robespierre,

No i am absolutely not sure but it was the only difference i saw on my Indigo2 (beeing a newbie myself ...)

TOM:-)

PM sent ...

Hi,

My Octane 2 has a V6 graphic and i suffer from the "frequency bug" because none of my TFT´s will display the "good" resolutions in 16bit Framebuffer...

Is it possible to simply downgrade the Octane 2 with a SI / SE or better MXI / MXE MBoard?

Maybe someone likes to swap Boards with me...

Greetings TOM:-)

Hi Clico Fantastico,

Thanks for your answer, i tried using a 1280x1024x50Hz vfo i found here in the forum, but my TFT´s simply do not display anything in this mode

Do you have a working vfo?

Greetings TOM:-)

UPS! Seems to be my mistake but why are the GL Demos "dithered" in 8Byte and "smooth" in 16Byte Framebuffermode? So i thought the display changed to 8bit. In 8Byte should be enough room for at least 24bit color!?!

TOM:-)