DD'ing IRIX Disks (was Re: [geeks] Apple vs. Sun)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:15:09PM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:06 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 
> >Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >
> >It's probably best that I just reinstall. I have the CD's, and I could 
> >probably partition better. It's just a rather painfull installation.
> >
> >But I could do it on my Octane at the same time (it needs a clean 
> >install onto a larger disk as well).
> >
> >Maybe I will catch up on some taped TV shows while I shuffle disks.
> 
> Do a network install.  It's much less painful, and, so long as you 
> install -just- what you need to get the system up and running 
> (Foundation, Overlays, and NFS), it doesn't take very long, either.

Heh, I'm not sure I want to -ever- try to add OS packages to an Irix
install again.  Somehow the guy who installed my Indy left out some
all important piece of actually having a compiler.  After 5 days of
fighting with dependancies and such in their installer, I gave up, and
turned the machine off.  It sat there until a couple of months ago,
when I tried to fire it up and the power supply was dead (Indy).  I
haven't been able to get it running again.
	Greg

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