[Raion]

So after reading through things here and all of the problems people end up facing with installing IRIX properly on their SGIs, I'm doing it better.


IRIX64/6.5.30 Edition

We'll start at the miniroot prompt. So you're at the inst prompt. A few things to note:

1. If you DIDN'T get asked to format your drive, chances are you are about to install over a current system, which is ill-advised. 
 Hit 13 for admin, then 11 for mkfs. This will prompt you to erase the drive. 
2. Once you've loaded all media, either from CD, tape, network, then you can go ahead and run keep over the following systems:

keep *
install standard
keep java* kerberos openssl openssh OpenOffice outbox sgi_apache ftn* gsview ghostscript sgitcl_eoe

Let me explain these:

kerberos - it's an old version of MIT kerberos. You can install a later version, so this is a waste of space.
Outbox - obsolete email program
sgi_apache - partially used by outbox, and also a huge security risk. 
openssl - obsolete, available elsewhere
openssh - ditto
java* - this should remove all java-related subsystems. Java is not useful on SGI, and only has super old versions
gsview - ghostscript viewer, it's old
ghostscript - a foss implementation of postscript. It's also obsolete. 
ftn* - Unless you find a Fortran program, the fortran runtime and compilers are a waste of space. 
sgitcl_eoe - very old TCL version, you can find later versions by me and other devs.
OpenOffice - Shitty port of OpenOffice from 2004-ish IIRC. It's crap. 

None of the conflicts these generate should cause core systems to break.

Check conflicts:

conflicts

It'll prompt you. You may get stuff like xpdf that can't install. That's fine. Just be careful if it says EOE, viewkit, 4dwm, desktop etc. You can run:

list <name of subsystem>

and It'll tell you what it is.

Then hit go. 

I'll be doing some other tips for this, but this one thing I discovered over the last few days and it helps me keep my install lean and mean.