[DeChief]

Okay, after somehow convincing myself not to smash the Indy R5000 with a sledgehammer and throw it out of a moving vehicle, I took a break for 2 months and am now coming back to it.

But as I worked on it for a few hours today, I was already beginning to regain those same feelings of frustration...

I've been trying to use my SCSI2SD as a CD-ROM drive emulator to install Irix 5.3 (downloaded from http://fr.irisware.net/irix-os/legacy-ir...y%20R5000/), and am having very little luck. When I try to install from the maintenance menu's second option "Install System Software", it will get through the "Copying Installation Tools" progress bar and then drop to this error:

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I've also tried booting into sashARCS and fx.ARCS from Command Monitor, and I can boot into sashARCS just fine but can't get into fx.ARCS from there. Despite the fact that I can use "ls" to see the file inside the "stand" folder, it gives me an error after I try "boot -f dksc(0,5,7)stand/fx.ARCS". I didn't take a photo of the error but will if somebody thinks it's relevant.

Does anybody have a single clue as to what is going on?

If not, I have an idea: would anybody possibly be willing to use their SGI machine and SCSI2SD to install an Indy R5000 compatible version of Irix onto a MicroSD card, and then send it to me? I'm completely happy to pay for the card and for shipping of course. If that doesn't work, then I'll pretty much know for sure that my Indy has some sort of hardware issue that needs to be repaired.