Hello,
I've recently added an IRIS 3130 machine to my collection. It is a
MultiBus based SGI with a Motorola 68020 CPU, additional Floating
Point unit and the typical 5 or 6 board graphics subsystem. It's
complete with original UNIX documentation and owners guide as well
as the original extras (monitor, keyboard, mouse).
I'd like to get it up and running again but I can't get any of the
backups back on a "fresh" ESDI drive (the original died). According
to the Old IRIS FAQ the drive is supported. As far as I can see it
is also detected but the process that should restore the
installation back to harddisk dies quite early in the copy stage.
Thus the current status is: The machine passes POST without
problems, it can be talked into booting the installer and
partitioning tool from tape but it crashes during the copy
operation.
As I said I'd like to get this beast up and running (i.e. have an OS
Installed). A "nice to have bonus" would be having a working TCP/IP
stack on it so that it can run in my network (an Ethernet board is
present).
Any hints / help is *very* much appreciated. I can -of course-
provide additional information if it is needed.
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Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail_at_g-lenerz.de
Old SGI Stuff http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/
Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 13:51:18 BST