On Mar 18, 16:12, William Donzelli wrote: In response to those who try to prevent an SGI owner obtaining media for an OS his machine probably originally had, I'd point out that: all SGI machines that ran IRIX were shipped with the OS; the OS is/was licenced for the CPU, not the original owner; the license doesn't preclude the system owner making a copy for use on the same CPU. There was a discussion about this a few months ago on comp.sys.sgi.admin, in which the concensus from the SGI staff was that there was nothing wrong in obtaining a copy of the OS for a system, providing one wasn't upgrading to a version later than the one the system had been licensed for. You should be able to find the discussion on DejaNews. OK, so that won't help in getting a copy of 6.5. Judging from our experiences, you don't want it just yet, anyway ;-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York