[Linux-RISC]

I have tried these diskless versions on Indy with no success:
5.3
6.2
6.5.0

It always gets stuck, really don't know why.

I even disabled NFS 3 (just NFS 2 enabled on NAS) but no luck.

It's indeed possible. I had my Indys booting OpenBSD diskless in the past, though it worked only after this change here.

Have you got an OpenBSD image to try to boot from? I would like to rule out network and NFS version problems.

[Linux-RISC]

Images uploaded for testing on Mega: https://mega.nz/folder/7jJGlSSS#d25XyA8RhKJyoU2uSrlasw

IDW_6.2.tgz
IDW_6.5.0.tgz
IDW_Indy_5.3.tgz
IDW_Octane2_6.5.30.tgz

[Linux-RISC]

Finally, Indy IRIX diskless workstation is working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYXD1P0nS0g

New image IDW_6.5.22.tgz uploaded for testing on Mega: https://mega.nz/folder/7jJGlSSS#d25XyA8RhKJyoU2uSrlasw

https://github.com/Linux-RISC/IRIX-diskl.../README.md

[Raion]

Cool.

[johnnym]

It's indeed possible. I had my Indys booting OpenBSD diskless in the past, though it worked only after this change here.

Have you got an OpenBSD image to try to boot from? I would like to rule out network and NFS version problems.

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice your request. Did you maybe edit your post?

No, I don't have an image or tarball, but you can easily built an OpenBSD root FS yourself with my nfsrb2 tool. If you're running it on GNU/Linux you need to boot the diskless machine into single user mode the first time, so you can populate /dev. nfsrb2 prints out a commandline that shows how to do that. To boot in single user mode is different from arch to arch, but I believe for SGI machines you have to provide an extra "-" in front of the "-s" switch.

Finally, Indy IRIX workstation is working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYXD1P0nS0g

Ok, I see, you found your way through. Great! Will checkout the video asap.

[Linux-RISC]

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice your request. Did you maybe edit your post?

Yes, it's my fault, I edited the post.

Ok, I see, you found your way through. Great! Will checkout the video asap.

Thanks to the previous error I had to work hard and find a solution for the Indy.

I have downloaded and analyzed the nfsrb2 tool and it might be interesting ...

[Raion]

I'm pleased to see there's a lot of developments and discussion on this topic. One of the most interesting aspects of this I think would be setting up computers for vintage computer festivals. You just bring along a Master machine with enough storage and all of the images, serve them over a network and that way you don't have to worry about the noise from hard drives or the potential for a drive to be failed or for somebody to damage the installation that you might use on a daily basis.

[johnnym]

I'm pleased to see there's a lot of developments and discussion on this topic. One of the most interesting aspects of this I think would be setting up computers for vintage computer festivals. You just bring along a Master machine with enough storage and all of the images, serve them over a network and that way you don't have to worry about the noise from hard drives or the potential for a drive to be failed or for somebody to damage the installation that you might use on a daily basis.

Indeed, that is a killer application for this infrastructure.

I know, I'm always talking about running my machines diskless, so please don't mind if I bore someone, but I haven't yet found a machine that can't be operated diskless in my collection of machines. And running without legacy hardware like spinning rust saves you a lot of trouble. People are usually reluctant to create all the needed infrastructure for diskless operation and some developer people are always making sure you run into problems after OS upgrades on your infrastructure machines (NFSv2 not working by default, dependencies between daemons not correctly handled by systemd, etc.). But this Reanimator tool here seems to make it easy for interested people. And that's really good for the community.