If you're trying to install Irix 6.5.22 you are definitely doing it wrong. Irix 6.5 does not boot from EFS it uses XFS for everything. It's also possible that you may have to wipe your drive between OSes but it's worth trying it without wiping it.
Yes you boot with the overlays because they are newer. The overlays are like a service pack, you have to own the base CDs to prove you own the operating system and to tell the overlays what you're entitled to. The overlays upgrade what's in the base. So stuff you don't install in the base does not get installed when you install the overlays. This is also true of drivers as well. If you add any hardware adapter cards to your Indy you have to present the driver, the base 6.5 distribution, then the overlay upgrade discs in order to get the correct driver. Base is what you own, overlays is what you upgrade to. Overlays aren't an entitlement if you don't have the base CDs there's nothing for them to upgrade. So you need to put all the products you want when you put in the base CD, this includes NFS. If you want the NFS server you need to put it in with the CDs and then it will upgrade on the overlay CDs.
So first you've always boot from the overlay disc one, then feed in the discs in the order it says but normally that order is the 6.5 base CD set then the rest of the 6.5.22 set including applications. I believe you do the applications on both because the overlays need the entitlement for what you're supposed to be installing from the base. Consider the overlays to be a service pack or patches. They only upgrade what's in the original distribution then give you what you're entitled to for free on top of that.
XFS does not use a 512 block size unless you have an incredibly small hard drive. If you have a 1GB or larger drive you should be using the recommended 4096 byte block size (4KB)! Take the default don't make things up.
On standard install you will always get conflicts, always!!!!! Normally it's about Mozilla and Java and some other BS. Normally if you say you're not interested in installing or you're not interested in installing Java everything else becomes pretty evident. If you need to post them then post with the conflicts are but there's normally only like three conflicts up on a normal installation.
So you got the CDs right, you got the file system wrong, you got the partitioning right, you are supposed to get conflicts you need to address them. Just say that you will address them and when it gives you the option just don't install stuff that doesn't look important like Java.
(07-30-2025, 10:20 PM)Anonymoose Wrote: 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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