Hi John,
I fanally worked out what was wrong, I mounted these drives on another
sgi box I have externally, and it looks like for both 3.3.1 and 4.0.5
/usr is remotly mounted, so I am going to need to do an os re install.
Now to get a copy of 3.3.1. or 4.0.5.
Benjamin
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 09:09:22 -0400, John Boffemmyer IV
<john_boffemmyer_iv_at_boff-net.dhs.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
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