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I do have an IRIX CD-ROM, but I do not have a SCSI CD-ROM drive.  Am I out of
luck as far as installing SGI Linux goes?

-s


Roald Lygre wrote:

> On Jun 29,  3:19pm, Shane W. wrote:
> > Subject: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I am trying to install HardHat linux on an "Indy r5000", the SCSI disk
> > was blank and I was running into problems so I did a mkfs on it.  Now
> > the install script keeps asking me to initalize the drive.  I do not
> > have access to an Irix machine to repartation it or anything of the
> > such.  Any ideas?
> >
>
> If you have an IRIX operating system CD available (must be marked with
> "Contains installation tools"), you could boot the disk maint tool "fx" from
> the CD.
>
> Contact me directly if you have the CD (and CDROM player) and need specific
> instructions on how to repartition.
>
> -Roald
>
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