Hi all,
its been a while since I have had a decent find of some good machines,
but anyway yesterday I got given two personal IRISes.
One seems to be dead, as it doesn't seem to pass the diagnostics, the
other well it will boot, but the os is hosed on one of the disks, and
refuses to boot into single user mode.
The other disk which has a realy old version of IRIX (3.3.1) is at the
moment attempting to boot, I have got the UNIX copywrite boiler plate,
followed by the version of IRIX it's trying to boot, but nothing
else..
But it seems to be going through a file system check, as the drive
light is pretty much on solid (well its pulsing) , but this has been
going on for a few hours. And as I have no idea how long fsck would
take on one of these older machines I plan to leave it running for a
while to see if it will get anywhere.
The other cool things I got with this machine, are manuals galore
(Including the Personal Iris Owner's Guide). And one of the
installation tapes. (But no tape drive)
Does anyone know where one can source the older versions of IRIX for
these machines, be it cd or tape images? I know this machine could run
IRIX 5.3 which one could get off ebay, but as this machine only has 16
meg of ram, I would prefer to run one of the older versions of IRIX on
it, be it 3.x.x or 4.x.x as I haven't ever realy played round with
these older versions of UNIX before.
Benjamin
--
one you lock the target
two you bait the line
three you slowly spread the net
and four you catch the man
Front 242 Headhunter
Received on Sat Jun 19 2004 - 23:23:38 BST