[pixelbart]

Hi all,

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a public archive of every single IRIX version ever released?

I "need" them for a secret project I'm working on, so over the last week I've been trying to hoard as many IRIX 6.5 releases as possible (6.4 and earlier will be another project).

My main sources were:
- archive.org
- https://fsck.technology/software/Silicon...RIX%206.5/
- https://jrra.zone/sgi/
- My own collection (6.5.24, 6.5.30)

At this moment, this is what I've got:
http://pixelbart.net/SGI/irix65collection.html

That's a total of 66GB of efs and iso files.

So I'm still missing the overlay images of 6.5.20, 6.5.25 and 6.5.26. I can't find them anywhere.

Does anyone here happen to have these cd's and if so, are you willing to share disk images with me? Please?


If my collection is complete, of course I want to share it with the world. Should I upload them to archive.org? unixfiles.org? betaarchive.com? Or host them on the irixnet ftp? Or should I just self-host them? Are there legal risks besides the fact that it's all abandonware?

The purist in me wants to share them as efs images, but efs is more and more a pain in the @$$, so I guess tar archives are more practical. Are there any conventions about the naming and structure of these archives? .tar.gz or .tar.Z? with or without root folder?

Sorry, lots of questions :)