LOVE (install IRIX from IRIX, LINUX or WINDOWS)

[NonsensicalFox]

Did you get it to work? I have found the tftp server that comes with love to be very particular. I can only get it to work on a Windows 11 32bit install. I tried everything else under the sun...

IRIX bootp is ancient and lacks documentation. I think it sometimes sends junk characters and/or cannot receive later release characters in the stream causing the crash on the other platforms. I did some sniffing while troubleshooting and saw some ghosts that lead me to believe that. After about 2-3 hours of trying to get it to work, I bounced (dusted off and booted) back to the Win11 32bit laptop with success.

Still no luck. Tried a 32-bit installation of Windows 10, and then went as far back at 32-bit Windows 7 on an old laptop (made sure to open the proper ports on both). LOVE gets to transferring "sa" and then just hangs, and the Indy eventually times out. Tried disconnecting the switch from the internet so it's only them on it (don't know why I didn't think to do that in the first place), but still no dice. I will be trying Arch this weekend when I have time. I appreciate your help.

 

[mcguire]

Just a quick "thank you" report from the Large Scale Systems Museum in Pittsburgh. Love has worked flawlessly for us on, so far, the following systems:

- Origin 2400 (16x R12K/32GB)
- Origin 3400 (4x R14K/8GB)
- O2 (R10K/256MB)

The host is a Debian Linux VM running on a SmartOS host.

No issues whatsoever.

I've installed IRIX many times in the 1990s, spending at times an entire day twiddling my thumbs and swapping CDs, invariably to wind up wasting hours resolving conflicts or forgetting a CD etc. Now installing IRIX is completely painless! THANK YOU!

-Dave McGuire, LSSM

 

[Woof]

For those (like me) unable to install from Love but who see the first incoming connection in the console, try plugging the two systems directly with a crossover cable. I first tried Love from a Pi5 plugged into the network I use for old machines (ahem, it's still 10Gb) but whilst this worked from IRIX and I could NFS mount, I couldn't launch the installer. I pulled everything out and used a standalone router, but with the same result. Finally I shoved a crossover cable between the Pi and SGI, then set the Pi's wired connection as "Shared to other computers" with a manual IP address, and that works.

I'm currently happily waiting for IRIX to install on my Onyx4... and it's better than messing about with CDs!