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Thanks -- good old CTRL-C took me out of the exercise cleanly. Should have done it days ago!

Used fx to set up partitions on the new drive and write the label. Had a scare when my first attempt at install didn't find the disk, but I resetenv in PROM and my second install attempt worked. (I forgot to run diagnostics before the resetenv, but did run it afterwards and SCSI test passed, not sure if that had anything to do with it.)

Followed the network install guide elsewhere in this forum, and happy to report I seem to have IRIX 6.5.22 working. Thanks to all for the help. (I can confirm that in PROM the VGA signal is 75Hz, and after boot it goes down to 60Hz.)

A few questions if anyone feels like sharing. I installed:
6.5.22 Overlay 1 of 3
6.5.22 Overlay 2 of 3
6.5.22 Overlay 3 of 3
6.5.22 Applications [only one image file, see below]
6.5.0 Foundations 1
6.5.0 Foundations 2
6.5.0 Applications
The repository where I found the 6.5.22 iso files (WinWorld) only had a single Applications CD image, but the release notes suggest there should be two. This is why I included 6.5.0 Applications -- there were only two conflicts, a Java and one other, which I chose not to install. Am I missing anything important/fun?

Also, I tried to install
6.5.0 Development Foundation
6.5.0 Development Libraries
ONC3/NFS Version 3
but the installer rejected them as the wrong version. What is the right version? Again, WinWorld only had the above 4 CD images for 6.5.22.

Finally, I seem to have got it playing nicely with my local network (can ping local machines and see the routers), but it looks like WAN traffic through both Netscape and Mozilla isn't working. I'm by no means a network expert, very possible I've missed a setting (DNS?), but wonder if both browsers are so old they are being blocked?