Resurrecting an early 80s SGI

Hello, I've recently added an IRIS 3130 machine to my collection. It is a MultiBus based SGI with a Motorola 68020 CPU, additional Floating Point unit and the typical 5 or 6 board graphics subsystem. It's complete with original UNIX documentation and owners guide as well as the original extras (monitor, keyboard, mouse). I'd like to get it up and running again but I can't get any of the backups back on a "fresh" ESDI drive (the original died). According to the Old IRIS FAQ the drive is supported. As far as I can see it is also detected but the process that should restore the installation back to harddisk dies quite early in the copy stage. Thus the current status is: The machine passes POST without problems, it can be talked into booting the installer and partitioning tool from tape but it crashes during the copy operation. As I said I'd like to get this beast up and running (i.e. have an OS Installed). A "nice to have bonus" would be having a working TCP/IP stack on it so that it can run in my network (an Ethernet board is present). Any hints / help is *very* much appreciated. I can -of course- provide additional information if it is needed. -- Best regards, Gerhard mailto:mail@g-lenerz.de Old SGI Stuff http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/