[weblacky]

I could be wrong on this and I have no actual experience with this network installer. But reading the guide I'm wondering since you set up the VM yourself if you properly setup the RSH service or at least allowed it through the firewall? I'm assuming you turned off all firewall stuff in your VM anyway, right?

I'm trying to remember how the real IRIX network install actually works (ROBOINST), I thought that the initial sash and FX load is actually TFTP. And it also may be that the inst installer also is loaded through TFTP. But I know that every file afterwards is supposed to be through remote shell, RSH. I thought? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. They didn't use SSH and so they used rshd.

That should be the connection it's actually complaining about. All the files before that were delivered via a totally separate transfer protocol. So I would assume that you've either not set up the Rshd process correctly in your debian install or your firewall is still blocking it. Or the directory it was given when as it's root dir when it was set up as a service is not allowed to access the IRIX files or folders that are carrying all your setup files. Either way I would look up the rshd setup and firewall configuration to solve this problem.

It's only briefly mentioned in step 0.3 of the instructions. And it only says to turn it off if it's already on your network. But the fact of the matter is that that is the delivery mechanism it's complaining about and I'm assuming that this LOVE software does not emulate it it simply provides a bunch of scripting and helpful labels for the TFTP process. I also assumed it emulated the TFT process itself because that's fairly easy to do. It probably doesn't emulate RSHD and therefore you have to have a genuine setup and working.

Again that's my assumption...