The collected works of thijsatteiltje

Web developer and sysadmin on Linux since 1996.
In 1997 I found myself at 2:00 at night in my ISP's editorial staff office filled with more than a dozen Indys, all sporting a giant 20" monitor, webcams shut, 3D glasses connectors ready... I was hooked.

Worked for Dutch Internet provider, web studios and a computer science institute, all good sources for SGI hardware. Currently in Wellington, New Zealand, which is awesome... except SGIs are rare here.


Thijs

(p.s. I now own one of the Indys I fell in love with that night. It is still my favourite

Hi,

since i read this post while i was playing with my own O2 and was able to test things out, let me be (un)helpfull.

there is in fact a sort of live cd for sgi, the Gentoo Mips live cd. just google for it. it works great on my O2. just hit esc for maintenance and install from cd.

the only problem is is that it won't mount the xfs disks, wich makes it completly useless for your problem.
i seem to remember that i once mounted an xfs disk on a pc, booting from a recent knoppix live cd. but i could be mistaken.

this post has some info about mounting xfs under linux.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-24 ... 39fef8376b

so, my post is not very helpfull i'm afraid, although the gentoo boot cd might give you some info about the system.
but, since i'm swapping disks in my O2 as well i'd be mo than happy to try stuff out for you.

or, if you happen to be close to wellington, new zealand you should stop by and we could try to tackle this dragon together )

my suggestion to get root (as was probably mentioned before)
- attach te disk to another sgi machine as second disk adn reset root passwd
- attach disk to pc, boot knoppix and reset passwd
- i'm not sure what the dd would acomplish that you would not get from physically moving the disk?

thijs

correct my if i'm wrong but i think you can do dd disk cloning to a different sized disk, as long as it's equal or larger size and the drive parameters match more or less? i'm sure i have done this before. you do end up with a disk that is the same size as the original.

(still not sure how this would help OP)

there is quite a lot of swag, mods, weird attachments and other sorts of bat shit crazy SGI stuff in my photo album.
i only own the Indy jugling balls and a very bland mug. My dying wish is to own the coffee mug with the "back up handle"

please to enjoy

https://picasaweb.google.com/teiltje/SiliconGraphics#

that sir, is what we call a "subtle hint"

Here you go. Please to enjoy:

http://mercato.teiltje.nu/spool/Silicon ... ffpics.zip

Thijs

ps. anybody have any spare ones like these? My birthday is coming up....