Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -32- Why do 'inst' and 'showprods' say that a subsystem is an "Unknown product entry"? Next Document: -34- How can I copy my system disk onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 20 Jan 1994 00:00:01 EST With difficulty. Many parts of the installation process assume that you're installing IRIX onto your system disk (SCSI ID 1). Just fiddle with SCSI ID switches and/or move disks around to make the disk onto which you want to install IRIX the system disk for the duration of the installation. Furthermore, IRIX has many hardware dependencies, so you should only move system disks between absolutely identical machines. If you want to make a system disk for a machine without a network connection, CD-ROM or tape drive, the easiest and safest way is to borrow another CD-ROM or tape drive. If you want to try anyway, Justin Mason <jmason@iona.ie> reports that the following works under IRIX 5.1.1: Set up the disk, e.g. with SCSI id 4, fx a generic "[bo]otable" partition setup onto it, and mkfs the partitions. Copy sash, etc. from your system disk to the new disk with dvhtool. Boot up the miniroot as usual, go into inst, choose "admin" from the menu and do the following, replacing SCSI IDs and partition numbers as appropriate: umount /root umount /root/usr mount /dev/dsk/dks0d4s0 /root mount /dev/dsk/dks0d4s6 /root/usr mount # Just to check return # Go back to main inst menu Then install as you like. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -32- Why do 'inst' and 'showprods' say that a subsystem is an "Unknown product entry"? Next Document: -34- How can I copy my system disk onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
Last Update March 27 2014 @ 02:12 PM
|
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: