The collected works of strandedinnz

Hello,

Probably IRIX 101 but I'm stuck.

I have downloaded the 6.5.22 overlays from SGI , how do I now install them over the top of my 6.5.15 installation ? I tried just pointing Software manager at them, but it comes up with a large list of conflicts .. most are about dev stuff which I don't care about yet, but some are about "incompatible" warnings and it asks me to remove things like the Tool chest etc.

Also if I wanted to do a boot from the tar files from SGI .. how ? Do I just burn them to CD ?

Thanks!

Mark

Ahh .. the patch did the trick

Thanks!

Mark

http://gizmodo.com/5091473/sgi-molecule ... wesomeness

So it's just an overgrown Linux box but still impressive ... once it exists

Mark

So when will the IRIX version be put up as news on the Blender site ?
How will the world know of the superhuman efforts you've put into it ?
And how will the world be turned green with envy as ye-olde SGI boxes chew through 64 threads ?

Mark

I got around to downloading this blender version .. and it just core dumps on me

Got a Fuel V10, 1gb ram and IRIX 6.5.29

I don;t have Python setup yet, but would that make a difference ?

Also what else should be installed to make it run ? There a list somewhere ?

Thanks

Mark

Hi there,

Unfortunately my PC only has 32bit 5Volt PCI slots so my LSI SAS board does not physically fit as it is a 3.3Volt board and the keying is different.
(I think I'll see about getting another cheap PC motherboard and enabling the "removable media" option via that)

And also, if I have the firmware image from LSI, can I use the "lsflash" utility in IRIX to do the upgrade ?

Mark

Did you zero out the disk as well ?

Maybe there is some left over Linux fluff in the areas where IRIX boots from ?

Surely some made it here and want a new home with me ?

Or am I looking for rocking horse poo again ?

Mark

eMGee wrote: Isn't WETA Digital based in New Zealand? Maybe they [still] have some? (Perhaps in storage or so).

I doubt they'd sell them to a mere mortal like me though

Mark

I'm a new import so not learnt everything yet

If I knew someone in Weta I'd be cheeky and ask if they had one surplus But I haven't met anyone from there yet

Mark

Hi there,

I've an old LC II macintosh that had a dead hard disk .. I've not replaced said dead disk (with a gigantic 2.1GB drive .. oh my god the power!!!!)

I want to get System 7.5.3 onto that disk .. how ?

The only tools I have to me are :

SGI Fuel (no floppy drive, but can mount the Macintosh SCSI disk)
Mac Mini running OSX (no floppy drive and no SCSI)
Linux PC (with a floppy drive)
Macintosh LC II with a SCSI hard disk and a floppy drive .... no OS.

So far I've managed to create a boot floppy from a disk image file and dd'ing it to a floppy using the Linux PC.
I've also copied all the System 7.5.3 files from the Apple site (they have released them as "free") onto the SCSI disk by plugging it into the Fuel and mounting the disk up.
If I then boot the Macintosh I can;t double click the self extracting System7.5.3 image .. I guess because the metadata about the file has been lost in the copy process ? It just says "WTF is that ?" ... basically.

Anyone know how to get around this ?

If I could find some System 7 floppy disks in an image format (ala rawwrite or dd) I could just write them back to real floppies ... but Apple have not made it easy!!

Mark

The files are these :

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Su ... ion_7.5.3/

All the files are .bin ... if I run "mcvert" against them while I have the SCSI disk mounted on the Fuel .. will it allow them to be doubleclickable when the disk is put back in the Mac ?

Thanks

Mark

And that's the issue I have ... don't have anyone with a Mac that is the same vintage or like me they have an OSX machine with no floppy drive

I even resorted to googleing to see if I could find a website that already has them as disk images .. not much luck their either, just some other people in the same boat as me.

Mark

porter wrote: If I can find the time, I'm sure I could do something.

You would forever more be my hero and should I find I have any illegitimate children then I'll gift them to you .. or I could buy you a beer should you ever come to New Zealand, your choice

Mark

porter wrote:

strandedinnz wrote: or I could buy you a beer should you ever come to New Zealand, your choice

Been here for quite a while now......

doh I should really learn to read those little boxes on the right so I can't fob off children onto you ? And I have to pay for beer ? Bugger!

Mark

Just bumping this up .. still want one!

gimmegimmegimmegimme!

Hmmm ... would dropping in a PCI graphics board work ? Or do those cards need special bios to make them go ?

Mark

Hiya,

Movie Maker will do the job but it is rather basic, Adobe Premier would be much better but the version available for IRIX is old, that said there are some SGI O2 plugins for Premier that allow the use of the ICE I think, making things a lot smoother.

If you just want to dabble then an O2 with the Audio/Video option would be easily obtained for very little money, it has the SVHS in/out and can also do Firewire with an added DM10 (or board that has the same chipset as the DM10) .. sometimes .. firewire is flakey from what I've heard and the camera support is limited

SGi reads in jpeg just fine, the O2 is actually a rather good machine for that since the ICE handles jpeg and motion jpeg in hardware (within limits)

Series of pictures to video conversion .. not a problem think the built in tools will do that but there is also mencode

You can get a range of digital video options for SGIs, most are aimed at the high end though (SDI input/output etc) but some are analog.
Firewire is available (DM10 or compatible) .. but support is limited.

Another software option might be "LiVES", looks pretty on the website .. just needs a compile+fix for IRIX which may or may not be easy.

Your biggest constraint is CPU power .. modern intel Core 2 Duo CPUs would encode the video MUCH faster than an O2, Octane or Fuel could ... unless you want to go for a big multi-CPU monster SGI

Also make sure you have LOTs of FAST disk, which in the SGI world means SCSI or SAS/SATA if you have a Fuel or Tezro with a LSI SAS controller installed.

Try things out with an O2 see how it goes

Mark

ocimpean wrote: Noob questions here:
From what I read on the above posts, I understood there is a Video Editor Software included with the standard IRIX installation. Correct me pls if I am wrong as I never touched an SGI workstation before, mainly due to prices
I read also somewhere that an early version of Adobe Premiere can be used on IRIX, how it compares with the one mentioned before?
I have an older Sony VX2000 MiniDV camera, with standard, s-vhs and firewire connectors. I want to know how I can use it with a SGI? I want to transfer some tapes I have in miniDV and edit them then output them on VHS or save them in some compressed format on the HDD.
Are there SVHS in-out possible from the O2 with the standard hardware or you have to buy an extra card? What about the Octane, I understood Personal Video option is an extra card, but what kind of video in and out allows?
What is the quality of the video capture files? Do you experience dropped frames with SGI capture like I use to on PC's?
Can those machines read jpg files from PC's or is a different format.
Can O2 or Octane render a series of TGA, JPG or TIF frames to an avi file, or mpeg?
And the higher digital options I guess do not support modern firewire, no?
Also, what are the prices for those video boards, if they are not integrated in the original system?

Really they used a different board ? Never knew that! What an efficient use of resources .. oh wait!

which one works best ?

Mark

I loved my Lotus Elise .. but I had to sell it when I moved to New Zealand ... was almost in tears!

Still, now I'm going to get myself a Morris Minor now

Well I used to live in the Netherlands .. bit to far away for me now unless you are willing deliver ?

Bums

Mark

I wonder if anyone is selling a Fuel with a V12 ? ... oh I forgot ... I am!

Mark

I've got twin babies and no Tezro .. can I trade a baby for a Tezro ? They'll be good workers when they are bigger!!!

Yup .. it's listed :

http://www.realsoft.com/news/contents.html