On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:37:51 -0400 (EDT), Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
<spc_at_conman.org> wrote:
>
> It was thus said that the Great Benjamin Gardiner once stated:
> >
> > 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.
>
> If you can get 3x, do so---it's the last version that came with NeWS
> (Network Extensible Window System or something like that)---starting with
> 4.0 SGI switched to X with (more or less) standard X Window Managers (4Dwm
> is quite nice, but still, it's an X Window manager) and I don't think
> there's any real difference between 4x and 5x.
>
> -spc (Actually, avoid 5x at all costs---it's a real hog)
>
>
I have heard that 5.x is pretty bad on these machines, so I am
probably going to try for 3.x or 4.x personally I would prefer getting
three going as I would like to see NeWS, but I cant get the disk with
3 on it to even look like its booting, and the two other disks with
4.x won't boot into single user mode, and also hangs at trying to
mount some long gone nfs shares.
Though I am sure I may be able to get it worked out. One can hope.
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 Sun Jun 20 2004 - 01:44:39 BST