[geeks] ARGH Irix install fun (no, not bad hardware...)

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> 
> > > At shell prompt, enter 'boot f dksc(1,6,7)stand/fx.64 x'
> 
> Don't use -x.  When you boot standalone fx, it'll ask you if you want
> extended mode.

And do I **want** extended mode? (I assume yes)
 
> > > ...opening dksc(0,1,0)
> > > fx: Warning: Failed to open SCSI(0)disk(1)part(10)
> 
> Yeah, for some reason it thinks you want read-only.

And I assume extended mode will prevent this?
 
> > did you tell FX to enable all option, otherways the std behavior is
> > read only, so if you have no irix partitions it just quits.
> 
> Standalone fx is backwards from hosted fx.

Standalone meaning off the install CD, and hosted means off the
installed system disk? Sorry, very new to SGI...

Thanks!

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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