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Mike Martin wrote: |
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> Success! |
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> I have successfully burnt and booted my SGI Octane from Kumba's X-RC6 |
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> distribution. The trick was in the burning. I was burning it from SUSE |
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> in a DVD burner. For whatever reason, it didn't work. I then tried |
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> burning it using cdrecord under Windows XP. I know everything says you |
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> can't burn the disk in Windows, but it was the only other machine I |
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> had with a burner. It worked. |
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> For the record I used this file: |
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> http://smithii.com/files/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32.zip |
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> downloaded from this site: http://smithii.com/cdrtools |
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> with this command: cdrecord -vv -pad speed=12 dev=1,0,0 -tao |
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> livecd-mips3-gcc4-X-RC6.img |
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> I've used the disk to boot my Octane and my Indy, both into X without |
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> any other problems. |
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> Thanks everyone for your help! |
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> Now I just need to figure out how to install and boot from the hard drive! |
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Interesting, what DVD Burner and what burning program? I suspect a DVD drive |
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that has a firmware bug in its handling of burnable CDs. Probably such a subtle |
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thing, QA missed it at the factory, or we're the only kind of setup that |
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triggers it. |
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And we never said Windows was impossible, just no one's every really tried it |
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before and reported success. But you did, since win32 version of |
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cdr-whateveritscallednow will do the trick nicely. |
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--Kumba |
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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