[rescue] Silicon Graphics Iris Crimson 4,400 RISC 150 Mhz

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

> >    Well, not on any IP17. It worked on my Crimson Elan and so did it on
> >two Crimson VGXTs a friend of mine owns (from the same CD set). You're
> >right, I found a thread on comp.sys.sgi.hardware about fx.IP17 problems,
> >but I didn't have those problems. It's been a while I installed 6.2 on my
> >machine but I can't remember having done anything special to get it
> >working. And it was a clean install of 6.2 on a fresh disk from sash just
> >like outlined above. And yes, I fx'ed the disk from fx.IP17. I remember it
> >took a looong time for fx to come up, but it finally did.
> 
> Ok.  I left it on overnight on both a VGXT and an RE.  I've done it 
> from serial console, you name it.  didn't work.  Can you ISO your 6.2 
> cd 1 and send it my way?  I'd like to try it.

I used to have the same problem on my crimson, back in the day. The trick
was to use the fx.IP17 found on the Irix 5.3. Once you had formatted and
labeled the drive (efs), you just have to boot the installation of 6.2 and
it will ask you if you want to convert the drive to xfs.