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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:41:03PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> Howdy folks,
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> I'm attempting to install the sgimips port for the first time on an O2
> (R5000). I've been using the pmax port on a DECStation 5000/25 for about
> a year, but I'd like try a little more modern MIPS architecture.
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> Is there any way around the need for IRIX fx(1) to create a bootable
> hard drive for use with NetBSD? I don't have access to IRIX and I bought
> my O2 without a harddrive so the IBM 4.51GB SCA SCSI disk (PN 76H5817)
> that I installed instead doesn't have the SGI volume header partition.
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> Thanks for your time,
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> -T
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> Page 491: If you want to master emacs, it helps to believe in
> reincarnation, because there is no way you are going to learn it all in
> a single lifetime.
> 	- Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_
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Read the NetBSD/sgimips FAQ. You have to netboot NetBSD so that you can
install it ;-).

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Richard Braun

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