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Some days ago I posted this thread on sgi.sh: https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/...twork.764/ :

Hello everyone.

I belong to a Spanish Retrocomputing forum called Retrowiki.

I have developed Reanimator, a software appliance to install IRIX over a network using a Raspberry Pi or VirtualBox (no extra RBPi features).

Reanimator has some interesting features such as:
- multiple network protocols available: NFS, Samba, FTP, ...
- automatically download of selected IRIX versions from the Internet: 5.3, 6.2, 6.5.0, 6.5.7, 6.5.22 and 6.5.30
- full version including several IRIX versions
- a Raspberry Pi network assistant to select wired or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet. The RBPi will work as a router for your sgi computer, allowing access to the Internet through your Wi-Fi network
- selections file to simplify the IRIX installation
- easy configuration by menus
- mount ISO images and pendrives
- update scripts from the Internet

Please, browse http://irix.mersisl.com/ and give it a try.

I think Reanimator could be an easy solution to install IRIX on your Octane.

i wish I'd seen this post a few days ago!! going to try your tool right tonight after work on my Pi3 and will report back

I tried for the past 4 days to reinstall IRIX on my machines using the same exact setup I had 2 years ago (Debian, bootpd) but unsuccessufully.

Issues I'm having with the bootp setup is that I can see the file requests (and whether it fails or not) on the bootp logs, but then nothing happens on the IRIX side so I'm not sure what broke since my last successful experience.


..... 5 minutes into the Reanimator's documentation and I *might* have finally understood why my bootp setup wasn't working.

" - return to tftpd: Octane (among others) won't boot with tftpd-hpa. Please, download the image again."

This weekend I was trying to both the Indigo (Elan) and the Octane and both had no chance to run fx.ARCS or sashARCS from the Prom using bootp()
Guess this is why?

I'll give more experimentation time by trying this Reanimatr setup on a Pi3 but also will try and swap tftpd-hpa for tftpd to see if that fixes.


Cheers,