Old SGI's?!

From: LFessen106_at_aol.com <(LFessen106_at_aol.com)>
Date: Thu Dec 21 11:27:59 2000

Can anyone on the list help me out with my SGI's?
I made a trade a trade for 2 Personal Iris 4D/35's. Cool lookin' computers,
however, I have a few problems.....
Neither one has a KB, Mouse or Monitor, and although a decent SVGA works
fine, I can't for the life of me find the KB/Mouse for these anywhere (they
have the ps2 style connector, but are *not* ps2 compatable).
After hooking them up to a Dumb Terminal I find that they both work (at least
up to the prom) and 1 actually will boot into Irix 4.0.2... The other has no
detectable OS.
The one that *does* boot to Irix has a root password that I don't have (of
course).

Is there any way to gain root access on that machine other than removing the
drive and mounting it on another box to change the passwd / crack it?
After I do actually get the one box running can I somehow transfer the OS
from one to the other? I read somewhere there was a prom command to
duplicate hard drives???
Is there someone on the list willing to part with an old copy of Irix? These
machines will only run up to 5.0.3 I think.. Anyone have a spare KB/Mouse
for these machines? I can run them (when I get them working) from a Dumb
Terminal, but would rather experience the famous SGI GUI.
Any other hints / tips / suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Linc F.
Received on Thu Dec 21 2000 - 11:27:59 GMT