On Jul 5, 19:46, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Jul 5, 12:25, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > "Unable to load dksc(0,1,1)unix.IP12: file not found"
> >
> > any ideas? I think I set the disk within fx as a usrrootdrive -
> > which I believe is correct for IRIX 5.3?
It was once common practice to keep /usr on a separate partition,
particularly if you had small (200MB) drives, in which case most of the
root drive would be root and swap, with /usr mounted later. If you
want to prevent a user filling his space so that there's no room left
in /tmp or /var/tmp either, it might still be a good idea but otherwise
multiple partitions usually just mean that at some future date there's
enough space on the physical drive for <what_you_want>, except it's
split betwwen several partitions and therefore unusable[1] :-)
> Last Indigo install I did, I used 812-0336-004, but I might have
> booted it off something older. Don't try it with an XFS-capable one,
> though.
I think I've just found the one I booted it off. It's an EFS CD I
burned a long time ago; if you're still stuck I can upload the 28MB
volume header tomorrow[2] and you can burn that onto a CD-R. You can
boot a CD that only has a vh. I discovered that the first time I
burned an EFS CD, which is normally built in two files -- the volume
header (which includes the sgilabel, partition table, and things in mr
or sa), and "the rest". Unfortunately instead of cat'ing the two files
to cdrecord, I told cdrecord to write the two files on its command
line, and ended up with two data tracks instead of one.
[1] As I discovered last time I built a complete inst-able perl
under IRIX 5.3.
[2] 28MB is a bit much for my ISDN line this evening.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 15:55:10 BST