Subject: Re: installing NetBSD 1.6 on an Indigo2
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@attbi.com>
From: Ken Wills <kenwills@tds.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 10/01/2002 21:41:54
+++ Rafal Boni [01/10/02 08:30 -0400]:
> In message <3D9706BA.6070209@berdmann.de>, you write: 
> -> I tried to install NetBSD 1.6 on an Indigo2 (IP 22, 200 MHz) using a 
> -> local CD-ROM drive without success.
> -> 
> -> The CD-ROM drive is on the external connector (controller 1) having ID 2 
> -> on the bus. Is is possible to install IRIX from this CD-ROM drive.
> -> 
> -> cdrecord was used to burn sgimipscd.iso.
> 
> It's possible the CD isn't entirely correct, as IIRC SGI cd's need to have
> a special SGI-specific format to be bootable;

Yeah, as far as I recall they're EFS (at least the IRIX installation media I have is).

Ken