Scrubbing an SGI Hard-disk
Subject: Re: How to boot & install from a local disk?
Date: 4 Apr 2001 19:16:41 GMT
From: wolfi@munich.sgi.com (Wolfgang Szoecs)
Organization: Silicon Graphics - Munich, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware, comp.sys.sgi.admin
In article [3ACB4D6E.27A81270@salford.ac.uk],
Ian Mapleson [i.mapleson@salford.ac.uk] writes:
>
> I want to install IRIX (6.5) from a locally attached disk. I have the
> volume header correctly setup (fx runs fine) and the rest of the
> CD data is ready to read, but how does one get the PROM sw installation
> section to begin the miniroot installation from a disk instead of local
> CDROM, local tape, or remote-whatever? The disk is a 9GB attached
> externally to an Indigo2. Path to the base OS CD is /cds/6.5inst/dist,
> while the others are at /cds/6.5F1, /cds/6.5F2 and /cds/6.5A.
>
> Nice to see fx loading so fast though. 8)
several possible ways, here my so called 'simple-setup' one:
a.) your disk's layout should look like this:
(let's assume /inst - shorter to type)
/inst/mr <--- obtained via: mkboottape -f sa -x mr
/inst/miniroot/unix.IPxx
1.) sash
2.) cp -b 32k dksc(0,1,0)/inst/mr dksc(0,1,1)
3.) boot -f dksc(0,1,0)/inst/miniroot/unix.IP30 --m
voila, miniroot from xfs-disk !
Wolfgang
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