Advice for a new Indy User
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RE: Advice for a new Indy User
Spoke too soon... confused on the whole 6.5 + .22 overlays. Using LOVE was fine for 5.3, but it's now giving me a bit of a hard time. I'm reading both the LOVE instructions and "Installing IRIX 6.5" from sgidepot. So far I've: booted into Overlay 1 fx, repartitioned as a rootdrive and expanded the swap file size, synced using label, then loaded into system installation with Overlay 1, wiped the disk with MKFS (EFS, 512 block size), chose FROM, type in the 5.3 foundation 1 cd, then do OPEN and type in the remaining 4 cds (foundation 1, dev foundations, dev libraries, June 1998 apps) and the three overlays. After that I'm hit with a bunch of conflicts and a feeling of dread. Am I doing this right? A few thoughts, LOVE says to boot into Overlays 1 first, which is odd given 6.5 has its own installation tools cd. Said cd isn't in LOVE's labels text file or the supplied disk image repository and I didn't think it was as easy as simply adding a line to the text file to enable it. Apologies for all the questions, I'd rather not do this all blindly and damage something.
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Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 06-21-2025, 09:29 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Raion - 06-21-2025, 09:46 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 06-22-2025, 02:29 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by legodude - 06-22-2025, 11:35 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 06-25-2025, 03:30 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Raion - 06-25-2025, 07:27 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 06-26-2025, 03:49 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Raion - 06-26-2025, 04:46 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-04-2025, 07:36 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-04-2025, 10:02 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Podboy - 07-10-2025, 12:28 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-10-2025, 01:10 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-05-2025, 12:35 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Podboy - 07-10-2025, 01:32 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-10-2025, 01:58 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-14-2025, 11:47 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-15-2025, 12:56 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-15-2025, 01:09 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-15-2025, 05:45 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by legodude - 07-15-2025, 12:06 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-19-2025, 01:25 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-19-2025, 05:55 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-19-2025, 03:06 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-19-2025, 03:36 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-19-2025, 09:21 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-19-2025, 11:59 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by vishnu - 07-20-2025, 02:09 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-21-2025, 07:14 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-21-2025, 10:53 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-22-2025, 12:37 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Raion - 07-22-2025, 01:56 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-22-2025, 02:37 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-27-2025, 07:27 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-27-2025, 09:06 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-28-2025, 02:17 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-28-2025, 02:49 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-28-2025, 08:11 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-29-2025, 12:57 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-29-2025, 02:42 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-29-2025, 04:23 AM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-29-2025, 03:52 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-29-2025, 08:33 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-29-2025, 09:23 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 07-30-2025, 10:20 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 07-30-2025, 11:48 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by Anonymoose - 08-07-2025, 04:17 PM
RE: Advice for a new Indy User - by weblacky - 08-07-2025, 07:00 PM

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