Subject: Re: booting indigo and serial con question
To: systems engineer <ozone@rs.cname.com>
From: Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@rezrov.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/09/2004 14:49:06
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:20:08PM -0800, systems engineer wrote:

> it doesn't really matter what partition table you give it, only that
> you let fx write a volume label.

(snip good irix tips)

sysinst does the right thing with virgin disks by way of /usr/mdec/sgivol.
i test installer changes by wiping the first couple of megs on the disk prior
to sysinst invokation :)

-- Chris
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