Option to boot IRIX from network
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RE: Option to boot IRIX from network
Thank you, Docter60. I'm working to add this functionality to Reanimator and I'm using your documentation to polish some configurations.

I have booted my Indy on network using a RBPi+Reanimator as NAS and I have some remarks/questions:
- I have used my Octane2 as server, like you, to generate share and client directories
- I prefer to generate the installation on the local disk and to use tar to backup and transfer to RBPi using scp, the generation over network is still slower
- Using a SD card on RBPi is very slow, and the SD card loses write cycles
- I'm working on booting Indy using bootp on RBPi but moving the storage to a NAS (a GNU/Linux thin client) to increase the general speed

Questions:
- Indy booted showing a simple window manager and I couldn't shut it down, a missing file error is displayed and I shutdown executing "shutdown -g0 -p -y", have you experimented the same problems?
- What are these lines used for? I think they are useless:
6.5.22  root=192.168.1.23:/srv/tftp/diskless/share/6.5.22 \
        sbin=192.168.1.23:/srv/tftp/diskless/share/6.5.22/sbin \
        swap=192.168.1.23:
5.3    root=192.168.1.23:/srv/tftp/diskless/share/5.3 \
        sbin=192.168.1.23:/srv/tftp/diskless/share/5.3/sbin \
        swap=192.168.1.23:

               

On shutdown:
       

Indy Indy R4400 150 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 24-bit graphics, 6.5.22
  Octane2 Octane2 R12000 400 MHz, 1024 MB RAM, ODYSSEY V6, 6.5.30

IBM 44p model 170 (7044-170), POWER3-II 64 bits 400 MHz, 1 GB RAM
AlphaServer DS10 466 MHz, 128 MB RAM
HP C3600 PA-RISC 8600 552MHz, 2 GB RAM
HP ProDesk 400 G2 MINI Intel Core i5 6th Gen 2,50GHz 16GB, Debian GNU/Linux (NAS)
HP t610 Debian GNU/Linux, 2 GB RAM (NAS)
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Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-17-2022, 05:15 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by robespierre - 03-17-2022, 06:07 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-17-2022, 06:28 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Raion - 03-17-2022, 07:26 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-21-2022, 04:17 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Raion - 03-21-2022, 10:26 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-30-2022, 08:24 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Linux-RISC - 04-22-2022, 07:02 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 04-30-2022, 10:51 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by stormy - 04-23-2022, 10:01 AM

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