What kind of drives are in them? Maybe someone has a spare to replace them
if they are defective or dying?
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 02:44 AM 6/20/2004, you wrote:
>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
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