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Can I put my O2 hard drive in an Octane?
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Can I put my O2 hard drive in an Octane?
I have a nice install of IRIX 6.5.3 and some applications on my O2. Can I simply pull the drive and mount it into an Octane and everything will just work?
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06-24-2020, 01:11 AM
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RE: Can I put my O2 hard drive in an Octane?
Sadly, it wont work like that, as the IRIX install will be missing the Octane drivers. You can swap drives between similar systems, but not between different ones.
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06-24-2020, 01:23 AM
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RE: Can I put my O2 hard drive in an Octane?
(06-24-2020, 01:23 AM)GeekLucanis Wrote:  Sadly, it wont work like that, as the IRIX install will be missing the Octane drivers. You can swap drives between similar systems, but not between different ones.
Darn. Thanks so much for letting me know.
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06-24-2020, 01:35 AM
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6.5.3 is also very old. Did you mean 6.5.30?
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06-24-2020, 01:57 AM
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(06-24-2020, 01:57 AM)Raion Wrote:  6.5.3 is also very old. Did you mean 6.5.30?

Actually, it's 6.5.21f (according to uname -Rs).
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06-24-2020, 02:05 AM
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(06-24-2020, 02:05 AM)brianare Wrote:  Actually, it's 6.5.21f (according to uname -Rs).

Did you want to swap back and forth or just shortcut the installation of the setup you like ?

You can't back-and-forth between those two (you can between a fuel and an O300 and O350, same family) but if you just want to keep the same setup except on Octane, you can try cloning the disk then taking the clone to miniroot on the Octane and doing < inst hardware >.

Haven't tried this myself but should work ...
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(06-25-2020, 07:21 AM)hamei Wrote:  
(06-24-2020, 02:05 AM)brianare Wrote:  Actually, it's 6.5.21f (according to uname -Rs).

Did you want to swap back and forth or just shortcut the installation of the setup you like ?

You can't back-and-forth between those two (you can between a fuel and an O300 and O350, same family) but if you just want to keep the same setup except on Octane, you can try cloning the disk then taking the clone to miniroot on the Octane and doing < inst hardware >.

Haven't tried this myself but should work ...

Wanted to add here that I just tried this with a disk from an Octane2 that I put into my o2+.  I was surprised at how easily this went, although very tedious getting all the right .iso burned to resolve all the conflicts (curse you diff versions of ONC3/NFS).  Also had to reset "OSLoadFilename=/unix" cause that was blank, and now need to get audio drivers installed.

Overall not too bad, i might have a crack at a full write up of instructions for other adventurous types Smile
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