IRIX install on ZuluSCSI

[liquidkoshman]

It's probably less complicated to perform an installation over network. Check out the new "all-in-one" IRIX installer tool called 'LOVE', created by TruHobbyist. It combines services like tftp, bootp, rsh etc in a single binary to serve IRIX installation media over network.
And I would stick to Version 5.3 for an Indy.

Thanks, I did previously try the booterizer and failed. I'm completely useless when it comes to networking - 0 experience. This one might be easier, but when I already have a ZuluSCSI I decided to use that.

As for the IRIX version recommendation - interestingly I find a lot of differing opinions - some say 6.5 is ok as long as you have 128MB+ RAM and a faster CPU, yours is quite the opposite. Honestly for me this is a 'mess around with and have fun' machine and I will downgrade if I find it too slow. I guess I wanted to try the latest in order to have access to the widest range of pre-compiled software.

Anyways thanks for all your tips, flexion

 

[Anthem]

Cool, my approach seems to work, I'm over 80% of the 6.5 installation in (using Installations Tools, Foundation 1 & 2 and Applications).
What I did was:
1. boot into inst from Installations Tools CD, go to Admin, sh.
2. mkdir CDROM2, mkdir CDROM3, mkdir CDROM4
3. mount -o ro /dev/dsk/dks0d5s7 /CDROM2 (in my case Foundations 1 was the SCSI device 5); then do the same for device 6 & 7
4. exit, .. to go back to inst
5. press 1, Enter to read Installation Tools from the default /CDROM/dist location
6. then write in /CDROM2/dist, Enter etc. to finish reading all 4 CDs (it seems the sequence of writing these in matters - the CD that has to be read first should be the lowest in the list, read in first)
7. press 5 to be Done and go back to inst
8. keep *, Enter, install standard, Enter, install prereqs, Enter (prereqs gives an error which is known and ok apparently)
9. go

Done. This was actually quite easy and logical in the end. Maybe this will be useful to somebody
Don't forget CDs have to be mounted with the ro flag (read only) otherwise it fails.
If you are using a disk that had IRIX previously installed on it for whatever reason it is always safer to format (mkfs) the disk first - the contents of the disk may prevent a successful installation!

Thanks for all the info. I have ZuluSCSI 6.4 which works with the client based utility zuluscsi-v6-util-1.0 . I have had days of trying various combinations of getting this to work on a Silicon Graphics Indy with the R4000 and the R4600. Well with the Utility I make a 2nd Hard drive with ID 2 which works fine on an external SCSI bus on a cable. I just made it 4Gbytes on my 32G SD card. So from the system disk manager on a working Indy I can go to Hardware and click on the SCSI(0)DISK(2) link and mkfs and then exit and mount it. It works well.

But I am really not having any success with the system recognizing the images I put on in various combinations to get the Indy to see the images on CDROM. One thing I realise is that the ZuluSCSI ver6.4 anyway, only seems to be able to have access to the SDcard via the USB cable from my Windows PC if I Format it FAT32 and not exFAT, as some people recommend on their systems. I have tried SCSI and SCSI2, tried with and without parity. I format the hdd 512k bytes per sector. But neither 512k or 2048k seems to work to see the read only CDROM. It just reports "unrecognized ..". I use the ZuluSCSI utility to say make a HD2 and a CD7 and when I boot up the Indy it recognizes both but just does not see the image file systems I load onto the root of the SDCard on the ZuluSCSIver6.4 loaded via the USB cable from my PC. I even went through loading in a "zuluscsi.ini" file with:

[SCSI7]
Vendor = "Toshiba"
Product = "CD-ROM"
Version = "XYZ"
Type = 2
# If IMG0..IMG9 are specified, they are cycled after each CD eject command.
IMG0 = FirstCD.iso
IMG1 = SecondCD.iso

but nothing seems to get the the Indy to see the Image files system. I even did the thing where one makes a Folder named say CD7 and then put the images in there, but that does not work either. These images are fine too because if I burn them to CD then the mechanical SCSI CDROM can read them. Is there something I am doing wrong or should be doing ?

What settings do you use and what method do you use to load the .iso .img or .hda files. I loaded the files initially after I formatted the SD card but that doesnt seem to work and then put a blank SD card in the ZuluSCSI and added it afterwards via USB cable. As I said if I do it exFAT then Windows will not even see the drive connected through the USB cable in the ZukuSCSI.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Anthem]

It's probably less complicated to perform an installation over network. Check out the new "all-in-one" IRIX installer tool called 'LOVE', created by TruHobbyist. It combines services like tftp, bootp, rsh etc in a single binary to serve IRIX installation media over network.
And I would stick to Version 5.3 for an Indy.

Except few know how to do that. "tftp, bootp,rsh in a single binary" sounds like something to be avoided. Wish I did know what you are saying though.

 

[flexion]

Except few know how to do that. "tftp, bootp,rsh in a single binary" sounds like something to be avoided. Wish I did know what you are saying though.

LOVE just starts a small server with all the required services to serve the install media over network to the IRIX installer.
You could also use Reanimator, which is available as "ready to go" SD card image for RaspberryPi, or VirtualBox image. You boot it up, select which IRIX installer version to download, and then you're ready to start the installation by entering the IP address in the installer prompt.