Hey folks,
I just finished my new project, it is called love. It allows installation of IRIX from IRIX, LINUX or WINDOWS.
The reason for its existence is that IRIX installations are difficult, even for experienced users. New users almost always struggle with IRIX installations which can be demotivating and frustrating.
My goal is to make this task easy, fast and accessible.
You can follow any IRIX installation guide on the net with the love installer. The features are:
Enter the name of the remote host: 192.168.178.100
Enter the remote directory: love.6530.1
love.6530.1 is a label that is associated with a real local path in the labels file: LABELS.UNIX.TXT or LABELS.WIN.TXT:
...
love.all.3264.6530.ov1 /mnt/IRIX/6.5.30/Overlays_1_of_3/dist love.6530.1
...
The first label is the fully qualified label name (FQLN), the second string is the real local path and starting at the third column come all the aliases which are normally shorter than the FQLN. During IRIX installation you can use either FQLN or aliases.
Thus, the above would be equivalent to:
Enter the name of the remote host: 192.168.178.100
Enter the remote directory: /mnt/IRIX/6.5.30/Overlays_1_of_3/dist
All paths in the labels file must be absolute pathnames. On UNIX this is straightforward because there is just one type of absolute path. On Windows, you can use:
1. C:\path\to\dist
2. \path\to\dist
3. \\server\share\path\to\dist
The second type is relative to the current drive.
If you need IRIX distribution files for the love installer, get them here.
To start love on UNIX, run as root:
Code:
# ./love your.IP.v4.address ./LABELS.UNIX.TXT
Or on WINDOWS, run as administrator or equivalent:
Code:
C:\>.\love.exe your.IP.v4.address .\LABELS.WIN.TXT
Note for WINDOWS users: you will need Npcap 1.72 to use the love installer.
Download a complete guide on how to install IRIX using LOVE from here.
Download the installer from here and spread the love!!!
Tru
EDIT 01.02.2023: Added link to love_guide.txt - a guide to install IRIX using LOVE
I just finished my new project, it is called love. It allows installation of IRIX from IRIX, LINUX or WINDOWS.
The reason for its existence is that IRIX installations are difficult, even for experienced users. New users almost always struggle with IRIX installations which can be demotivating and frustrating.
My goal is to make this task easy, fast and accessible.
You can follow any IRIX installation guide on the net with the love installer. The features are:
- designed specifically for network installation of IRIX
- it uses labels instead of cumbersome paths: love.6530.1 instead of /mnt/IRIX/6.5.30/Overlays_1_of_3/dist
- it is multiplatform (runs on IRIX, LINUX and WINDOWS)
- it consolidates all servers (bootpd, tftpd, rshd) into a single superserver
- is distributed as a single binary
- has an extremely small footprint (200KiB on LINUX, 400KiB on IRIX, 445KiB on WINDOWS)
- was extensively tested: IRIX 5.3, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.7, 6.5.22, 6.5.30
Enter the name of the remote host: 192.168.178.100
Enter the remote directory: love.6530.1
love.6530.1 is a label that is associated with a real local path in the labels file: LABELS.UNIX.TXT or LABELS.WIN.TXT:
...
love.all.3264.6530.ov1 /mnt/IRIX/6.5.30/Overlays_1_of_3/dist love.6530.1
...
The first label is the fully qualified label name (FQLN), the second string is the real local path and starting at the third column come all the aliases which are normally shorter than the FQLN. During IRIX installation you can use either FQLN or aliases.
Thus, the above would be equivalent to:
Enter the name of the remote host: 192.168.178.100
Enter the remote directory: /mnt/IRIX/6.5.30/Overlays_1_of_3/dist
All paths in the labels file must be absolute pathnames. On UNIX this is straightforward because there is just one type of absolute path. On Windows, you can use:
1. C:\path\to\dist
2. \path\to\dist
3. \\server\share\path\to\dist
The second type is relative to the current drive.
If you need IRIX distribution files for the love installer, get them here.
To start love on UNIX, run as root:
Code:
# ./love your.IP.v4.address ./LABELS.UNIX.TXT
Or on WINDOWS, run as administrator or equivalent:
Code:
C:\>.\love.exe your.IP.v4.address .\LABELS.WIN.TXT
Note for WINDOWS users: you will need Npcap 1.72 to use the love installer.
Download a complete guide on how to install IRIX using LOVE from here.
Download the installer from here and spread the love!!!
Tru
EDIT 01.02.2023: Added link to love_guide.txt - a guide to install IRIX using LOVE
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