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From: "Roald Lygre" <roald@stavanger.sgi.com>
To: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen), swerner@fcc.net
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:32:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9906301532.ZM1963@roald.stavanger.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) "Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux" (Jun 30,  3:24pm)

On Jun 30,  3:24pm, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> Subject: Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux
> On Jun 30, 14:22, "Shane W." wrote:
> >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?
>
> The Indy can access a CD-ROM drive on another host (it's via tftp when
> from the PROM I believe).
>


But you still need to be able to read the IRIX OS CD (it is in efs format). So
you need the kernel that supports efs, as Dag pointed out.

-Roald



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From: "Roald Lygre" <roald@stavanger.sgi.com>
To: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>, swerner@fcc.net
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:32:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9906301532.ZM1963@roald.stavanger.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990630153237.sYxFWVl_kN_k4VMVrJtYkyDn8CekbJAKEJlJFQlOesc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) "Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux" (Jun 30,  3:24pm)

On Jun 30,  3:24pm, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> Subject: Re: IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux
> On Jun 30, 14:22, "Shane W." wrote:
> >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?
>
> The Indy can access a CD-ROM drive on another host (it's via tftp when
> from the PROM I believe).
>


But you still need to be able to read the IRIX OS CD (it is in efs format). So
you need the kernel that supports efs, as Dag pointed out.

-Roald



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| Company: SGI Norge A/S                                      |
| Email:   roald@sgi.com          Tlf:          +47 5184 3633 |
| Addr:    St Olavsgt 9           Mobil:        +47 909 33 903|
|          N-4004 Stavanger       VMail (SGI):  870-4679      |
|          NORWAY                 VMail(ext):   67114679      |
|                                                             |
| SGI Norway's WWW Home Page: http://www.sgi.no               |
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-30 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-30 13:24 IRIX Partations with HardHat Linux Tor Arntsen
1999-06-30 15:32 ` Roald Lygre [this message]
1999-06-30 15:32   ` Roald Lygre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-30 13:35 Tor Arntsen
1999-06-29 15:19 Shane W.
1999-06-30  8:43 ` Roald Lygre
1999-06-30  9:20   ` Shane W.
1999-06-30 15:25     ` Dag Bakke
1999-06-30 13:48       ` Tom Woelfel
1999-06-30 14:06         ` Vince Weaver
     [not found]           ` <weave@eng.umd.edu>
1999-06-30 16:27             ` Dag Bakke
1999-06-30 14:49               ` Tom Woelfel

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