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

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:19:49AM -0500, Caleb Shay wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 03:48, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Irix doesn't come with a compiler, and SGI charges about $700 PER
> LANGUAGE for MIPSpro.

I have a license.  :-)  Alas, it's only good on the Indy which doesn't
work.  Even if you use GCC, there are some things that you have to get
from the IRIX discs in order for it to work (while pre-compiled
binaries work just fine without them).  
	 Greg

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