[liloeconnie]

Hi all and sorry for my delay, but I've been driving myself crazy with the O2 these days.
I've made several attempts, all of which have failed. Including installing openBSD.

Thanks for the replies first of all.

I'll update you on the situation

I had already proceeded to low-level format the disk with positive results, I tried to make partitions and labels, and tried to install Irix 6.5 from CD (downloaded from Archive.org).

But although the install started, it then stopped after the first phase of copying files, black screen, I had to turn off the O2.
I made several attempts but always with the same result.

Then I tried to install openBSD. The procedure was successful, without errors, but when restarted, the O2 gave an error:

Boot file not found on device pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/sash

Again I tried several times but always with the same result...

Okay.

Yesterday evening I read your reply messages and I came back confident of being able to install Irix, which would be the best thing, what I would like to do.

So I said to myself, ok let's go back to the initial situation. I ran the low level format again which lasted all night and was successful, same as the previous one (see attached img)

But now, before continuing, I would like to have further help from you on the correct steps that I must perform, in order to be followed step by step, so in case of errors or problems we can deal with them methodically.

Thanks again...

PS: I ask you to be patient for my ignorance about unix, but I come from DOS and it seems to be a whole other world...