On Friday 04 August 2006 08:56, Ian McDonald wrote:

On 8/4/06, Shane <shane(a)weasel.is-a-geek.net> wrote:

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Hi All, Ive had an indy for a couple of years (complete with working webcam!) but I have no media for the OS (nor a monitor for that matter) As much fun as you can have with one of these things, Id like to have the OS on hand to start from scratch. Does anybody know where I can lay my greasy hands on the media? (and how much beer will need to be traded)

Thanks Shane

Don't know about Irix media and it probably doesn't help that SGI is bankrupt but these things run Linux also - Debian has support for them I'm pretty sure.

Thanks, The last time I looked into running linux on the indy there was no linux support for the webcam (not that the webcam is anything to rave about, it has serious redshift issues) If I have irix, I can experiment, knowing I can go back to a clean install. The debian port though is http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ Although for the life of me I cant get the site atm When I think about it, there is going to be the problem of loading the OS onto indy, as it has no floppy drive nor a cd drive, meaning a probable network install solution :\

On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:43, Warren Boyd wrote:

On 2006-08-04, at 08:35 , Shane wrote:

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Hi All, Ive had an indy for a couple of years (complete with working webcam!) but I have no media for the OS (nor a monitor for that matter) As much fun as you can have with one of these things, Id like to have the OS on hand to start from scratch. Does anybody know where I can lay my greasy hands on the media? (and how much beer will need to be traded)

Hi - not sure if it will help much, but you could try http:// support.sgi.com/ and create an account.

If you register your machine - you *may* have entitlement to download the Media. I checked and it looks like without a machine registered I have entitlement to the 6.5.15 maintenance release ... but whether it's the full OS or not, I'm not sure.

YMMV, HTH

Warren.

Thanks I am now downloading disk 1 of the 3 disk set that makes irix6.5.22 (maintenance release) at a wopping 64Kb/s. The first disk is 503MB, the second and third disks are ~300 MB each. Im more than a little apprehensive as I dont recall indys SCSI drive being more than a few hundred MB. Shane

Shane, I was a bit late on this one, but having been down the path with this about 3 years ago, I maybe able to help. I have used debain and gentoo on both my indy and O2, but I really wanted to see what they could do given their natural OS as I was interested in the indy's video capabilities. Vino is(was) a project to get the indy cam working, at the time it was only doing stills not motion video, unfortunately all I ever got was a black image. I managed to find somebody with irix, and went to install it (google comes in handy with a disc partitioning issue when doing this!). I found that the irix I had was not very stable on the indy, but was good on the O2. Also when I got to the gui on the indy my motion video from the cam was..... black! Lucky I had a spare indy cam, which fixed this. For a monitor I hacked a PC VGA HD15 connector on to it, I now see there are sites with wiring diagrams that look better than my 3 in the morning hack. You can get away with a sun monitor, as I'm sure I had one connected at some point in time to her. A few gotcha's you may not of known about, the discs are in EFS format, not ISO, sash does not like iso and EFS has a fixed block size of 512B, the EFS formatted CD's are just like removable irix partitions. I think I was using 2 GB drives for each OS that I was testing, and from memory the drive id needs to be 1 as the controller is 0, I may be getting confused with other strange hardware I have used. Good luck! jono!! PS. Hamilton amateur radio club market day: 26th August at claudelands events centre, doors open at 10am. May see some of you there.

On 2006-08-10, at 09:31 , David Goodwin wrote:

Well, with so many people talking about Indys I guess now is a good time to ask if anyone knows where I can obtain a replacement PSU (and possibly a floptical drive) for my one. Ive been waiting a while to try my machine out as it is almost complete - System unit, keyboard/mouse, indycam, cables, software library, etc. Its just missing its PSU and floptical drive.

There is the current TM auction: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/ Servers/Server-components/auction-66213460.htm Cheers, Warren.