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RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - alexdedalus - 12-06-2023

Linux-RISC, I understand everything now, it clicked in my brain, thank you for your patience and clarification.
If I can help in any way, you can count on me. I'm a programmer specializing in computer graphics, but I'm not clairvoyant, so I apologize. It was really worth it!
Thanks!

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - Linux-RISC - 12-06-2023

(12-06-2023, 03:29 AM)alexdedalus Wrote:  Linux-RISC, I understand everything now, it clicked in my brain, thank you for your patience and clarification.
If I can help in any way, you can count on me. I'm a programmer specializing in computer graphics, but I'm not clairvoyant, so I apologize. It was really worth it!
Thanks!

Congratulations! I know that it's a difficult process that requires lots of tests and errors.
Ask everything you need, you just need Reanimator, Reanimator+external HD or Reanimator+NAS. The first option is the easiest one and the least flexible.

I'm looking forward to seeing other machines working as diskless workstations  Cool, I managed it using an Indy and an Octane2.

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - alexdedalus - 12-11-2023

If it is really necessary to use another silicon graphics workstation, to have a complete IRIX and more free space on the HD of the same size as the installation (something that I still think is unnecessary from my initial and superficial point of view), thinking that it would be It is enough to keep the IRIX files pre-installed within REANIMATOR. I could then use a second PC, emulating let's say an Indy at 100MHz using MAME, the speed is very good on my second PC, and serving as an IRIX server. But is this really necessary? Explain this detail to me better!

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - robespierre - 12-11-2023

The server for a diskless SGI IRIX client computer doesn't need to be IRIX. But IRIX's software installation procedure only runs on SGI computers, so to create the IRIX share tree that the diskless SGI will boot from, you must use a SGI computer. Using MAME to emulate an SGI Indy is outside my experience. I don't immediately see, however, how it would improve matters.

I think you will sooner or later come to the conclusion that diskless installation is beyond your capabilities and you will need to use a local hard disk or SSD.

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - Linux-RISC - 12-11-2023

(12-05-2023, 08:40 PM)alexdedalus Wrote:  Due to an initial reading of the excellent Reanimator package, I realized at first hand that a lot of emphasis was given to installing IRIX, and nothing mentioned how to run the OS directly from within the diskless workstation.

If I already have the IRIX pre-installed images on Debian running on the PC, why do I need another workstation with an IRIX already installed and double the free space? Isn't just Debian enough? Sorry if I missed something important!

But I congratulate you, for the work, it is a very good initiative and creativity. I liked!
- I suspect you're reading the documentation of Reanimator to install IRIX instead the diskless workstation documentation: https://github.com/Linux-RISC/IRIX-diskless-workstation.
- You don't need another IRIX workstation if you use a pre-installed image, just Reanimator installed in a VM or on a Raspberry Pi (recommended).

Reanimator works in this case as "launcher" of the pre-installed image.

Thanks for your congratulations  Smile.

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - alexdedalus - 12-11-2023

Linux-RISC, exactly, exactly, exactly. You killed the mystery of the century. I hadn't realized that there were 2 documents about Reanimator working 2 different operations (one about installing IRIX and another about running IRIX remotely). Well, you had already mentioned this before. And that created a lot of confusion for me. You are firmly aware of the details of the project and fixed here on Earth, while I was hanging by a thread in the extrasphere, but nothing more. I'm glad everything was clarified. We continued like this, exchanging ideas. In computing, nothing is at a basic level for me, as I have been in the computing area for a long time, initially with a ZX81 in 1984, then I worked a lot on MSX in 1987, I jumped straight to an Indy in 1996, it was only in 2001 that I migrated to PC. But I didn't abandon Indy. And a curious fact is that the battery that maintains PROM information is still working today and has never been changed, despite being built into the Dallas chip! This is normal?

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - jan-jaap - 12-12-2023

(12-11-2023, 11:31 PM)alexdedalus Wrote:  And a curious fact is that the battery that maintains PROM information is still working today and has never been changed, despite being built into the Dallas chip! This is normal?

You probably left the mains power connected even with the system shut down? The PSU still supplies a standby voltage when the system is shut down. The Dallas only uses the battery if no standby voltage is present.

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - alexdedalus - 05-06-2024

Do you have a pre-installed Debian image for Indy R4400? To run it on a diskless Indy? Can you get this for me? I thank!

RE: How to run the IRIX OS from the network with another computer - Linux-RISC - 05-07-2024

Not at the moment, but I think it's worth it. I'll try to install Debian on my Indy and generate an image to be booted diskless.
I think Command Monitor doesn't support booting from a Linux partition, but I'll give it a try.