19 Jun
2004
19 Jun
'04
6:44 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:37:51 -0400 (EDT), Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
<spc(a)conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Benjamin Gardiner once stated:
I have heard that 5.x is pretty bad on these machines, so I am
probably going to try for 3.x or 4.x personally I would prefer getting
three going as I would like to see NeWS, but I cant get the disk with
3 on it to even look like its booting, and the two other disks with
4.x won't boot into single user mode, and also hangs at trying to
mount some long gone nfs shares.
Though I am sure I may be able to get it worked out. One can hope.
Benjamin
--
one you lock the target
two you bait the line
three you slowly spread the net
and four you catch the man
Front 242 Headhunter
Does anyone know where one can source the older versions of IRIX for
these machines, be it cd or tape images? I know this machine could run
IRIX 5.3 which one could get off ebay, but as this machine only has 16
meg of ram, I would prefer to run one of the older versions of IRIX on
it, be it 3.x.x or 4.x.x as I haven't ever realy played round with
these older versions of UNIX before.
If you can get 3x, do so---it's the last version that came with NeWS
(Network Extensible Window System or something like that)---starting with
4.0 SGI switched to X with (more or less) standard X Window Managers (4Dwm
is quite nice, but still, it's an X Window manager) and I don't think
there's any real difference between 4x and 5x.
-spc (Actually, avoid 5x at all costs---it's a real hog)