commit 328fc7bda620bcb774a2aa32f87172170c8818bc
parent 113458691d3b65118941dd2108cd205e8b307211
Author: lostd <lostd@2f30.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:36:20 +0200
IRIX install notes
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3 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
NAME = divzero
TARG = /var/www/$(NAME)
BASE = "/"
-#BASE = "$(PWD)/" # uncomment for devel only
+BASE = "$(PWD)/" # uncomment for devel only
MENUPAGES = home.html lectures.html guides.html radio.html lists.html
PAGES = $(MENUPAGES) \
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ PAGES = $(MENUPAGES) \
guides/trunk.html \
guides/ipsec.html \
guides/netbsd-linode.html \
- guides/rpi-tv.html
+ guides/rpi-tv.html \
+ guides/irix-sgi-o2.html
EXTRA = css divzerokey.png favicon.ico index.html \
lectures/resources
diff --git a/guides.md b/guides.md
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ Just some notes on various useful tasks.
* [ipsec](guides/ipsec.html): Securing services with IPsec tunnels
* [netbsd-linode](guides/netbsd-linode.html): Installing NetBSD on Linode
* [rpi-tv](guides/rpi-tv.html): Raspberry Pi console media center with TV remote on Arch Linux
+ * [irix-sgi-o2](guides/irix-sgi-o2.html): Installing IRIX 6.5 to an SGI O2 from the network
diff --git a/guides/irix-sgi-o2.md b/guides/irix-sgi-o2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+### Installing IRIX 6.5 to an SGI O2 from the network
+
+Here are some notes that I kept while installing the latest IRIX 6.5 to
+an O2 machine with all available updates from SGI till the end of life
+in 2013. Most of it can be found from other sources too, but this is my
+take on the subject. The good ones are the `INSTALL.sgi` file from the
+OpenBSD releases and a couple of others listed at the end of the page.
+
+Before we begin, we have gathered all available install sets:
+
+Mandatory:
+
+ - IRIX 6.5 Foundation 1
+ - IRIX 6.5 Foundation 2
+ - IRIX 6.5.30 Installation Tools & Overlays 1
+
+Optional:
+
+ - IRIX 6.5.30 Overlays 2
+ - IRIX 6.5.30 Overlays 3
+ - IRIX 6.5 Applications
+ - IRIX 6.5 Complementary Applications
+ - IRIX 6.5 Developement Foundation
+ - IRIX 6.5 Developement Libraries
+ - ONC/NFS v3 for IRIX
+
+I am using my OpenBSD 5.4 laptop to boot the installer and serve the
+installation files. The two machines are connected directly with a
+UTP Ethernet cable.
+
+We boot the machine and click the `Enter Command Monitor` button to drop
+us in the command line interface of the BIOS. We execute at the
+prompt:
+
+ SGI> printenv
+
+This way we learn the MAC address of the machine.
+Now we set the address of our wired interface accordingly:
+
+ $ ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.0.1
+
+We also add an entry for the SGI machine in `/etc/{ethers,hosts}`.
+
+/etc/ethers:
+
+ de:ad:ba:be:de:ad voodoo
+
+/etc/hosts:
+
+ 192.168.0.2 voodoo
+
+Next, we modify our DHCP server configuration to give the machine a
+fixed address.
+
+/etc/dhcpd.conf:
+
+ subnet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
+ host voodoo {
+ hardware ethernet de:ad:ba:be:de:ad;
+ fixed-address 192.168.0.2;
+ }
+ }
+
+We have put all our sets in `/tftpboot/irix`:
+
+ $ du -sh /tftpboot/irix/*
+ 558M /tftpboot/irix/apps
+ 285M /tftpboot/irix/dev
+ 369M /tftpboot/irix/devlibs
+ 528M /tftpboot/irix/foundation1
+ 238M /tftpboot/irix/foundation2
+ 369M /tftpboot/irix/moreapps
+ 58.1M /tftpboot/irix/oncnfs
+ 411M /tftpboot/irix/overlay1
+ 393M /tftpboot/irix/overlay2
+ 572M /tftpboot/irix/overlay3
+
+Now start the TFTP and DHCP services:
+
+ $ /etc/rc.d/dhcpd -f start
+ $ /etc/rc.d/tftpd -f start
+
+And at the machine prompt we boot from the network location using TFTP:
+
+ SGI> boot()irix/overlay1/stand/sashARCS
+
+After a while we reach the installer prompt. Now we need a way to access
+the install sets over the network and SGI was using RSH. As of OpenBSD
+5.6 there is no rsh service; it has been removed with this
+[commit message](http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139783679810653&w=2). :)
+However, we can still build it and use it like this:
+
+ $ curl -o rshd.c "http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/libexec/rshd/Attic/rshd.c?rev=1.56"
+ $ make rshd
+ $ useradd -U -d /tftpboot sgi
+ $ echo "192.168.0.2 sgi" | tee ~sgi/.rhosts
+ $ ./rshd
+
+Back to the installer now, test the RSH connectivity:
+
+ Inst> sh
+ voodoo# rsh sgi@192.168.0.1 /bin/sh
+ ls
+ irix
+ exit
+ voodoo# exit
+
+Add the remote software package sources to the installer by pointing to
+the `dist` directory of each set:
+
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/foundation1/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/foundation2/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/overlay1/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/overlay2/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/overlay3/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/dev/dist/dist6.5
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/devlibs/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/apps/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/moreapps/dist
+ Inst> open sgi@192.168.0.1:irix/oncnfs/dist6.5
+ ...
+ Inst> keep *
+ Inst> install standard
+ Inst> install prereqs
+ Inst> conflicts
+ Inst> go
+ ...
+ Inst> quit
+
+Here we've put everything, but we should be able to do a successful
+installation with only the first two sets. After the system is up and
+running with network working we can still use the same install sets
+through say NFS or HTTP. Also there is the free package repository from
+SGI you can use online; visit:
+
+ http://freeware.sgi.com/index-by-alpha.html
+
+To install, for example, the sudo package, copy the link at the right
+hand side of the entry and use in the installer:
+
+ $ inst
+ Inst> open http://freeware.sgi.com/Dist/fw_sudo-1.6.6-sgipl1.tardist
+ Inst> go
+ ...
+ Inst> quit
+
+Other software that maintain IRIX support:
+
+ - [ScummVM](http://www.scummvm.org/)
+ - [ResidualVM](http://www.residualvm.org/)
+
+
+#### Links
+
+ - [Nekochan Net](http://www.nekochan.net/)
+ - [OpenBSD installation notes](http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sgi/INSTALL.sgi)
+ - [Obsolete](http://software.majix.org/irix/install-network.shtml)
+ - [Andrew Hazelden's Blog](http://www.andrewhazelden.com/blog/2010/07/installing-irix-6-5-on-an-sgi-o2/)
+
+
+Happy tinkering!
+
+lostd@
