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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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MikeMartin |
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On 2/2/07, Mike Martin <mikemartin@×××××.ca> wrote: |
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> That's the easy answer. Unfortunately the Octane (which is the one I |
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> want to get working) resides on a network where netboot is not |
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> allowed. Believe me, I've tried to do this. |
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> The Indy, happily netboots (on my home network). I tried to boot it |
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> and the Indigo2 from CD to test whether the problem what the Octane, |
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> that CD or the X-RC6 distribution. |
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> From my understanding the intention of the X-RC6 cd is not to provide |
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> the primary method of installing the OS. It is more of an experiment |
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> to see if what can be done and provide a quick "hey look what Linux |
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> can do" demo environment. I'm looking to use it for exactly that. |
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> Thanks! |
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> Mike Martin |
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