[rescue] Irix cd problem

[Gerhard Lenerz]

Hello,

Friday, April 18, 2003, 6:23:49 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 wlewis at mailbag.com wrote:
>> Sigh. It seems my set of 6.5.3 is missing a disk called installation tools...
>
> Take a look at the overlay 1 CD.  It should say whether or not it
> contains the installation tools.  Usually you can just boot off that.

  yes but to do a full install you also need the basic IRIX 6.5 CDs.
  SGI releases it's current OS versions as an overlay (i.e. Patchset,
  Software Extension) against the original IRIX 6.5 release.

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