irix howto

``````==== Installation ====
=== Irixboot ===
  * Get irixboot from https://github.com/halfmanhalftaco/irixboot
  * Connect direct p2p ethernet from mac eth1 to SGI
  * Set mac to 172.16.1.1
  * Configure Vagrantfile as follows

  irixversion = '6.5'
  
  clientname = 'indy'
  clientdomain = 'devonshire.com'
  clientip = '172.16.1.77'
  clientether = '08:00:69:0E:AF:65'
  netmask = '255.255.255.0'

   hostip = '172.16.1.1'
   bridgenic = 'en0'
 
  * Get IRIX CDs from Internet Archive and put into the following structure in the irixboot dir
<code>
irix
└── 6.5
    ├── apps
    │   └── IRIX\ 6.5\ Applications\ November\ 1999.img
    ├── apps30
    │   ├── Applications.image
    │   └── Complementary_Applications.image
    ├── foundation
    │   ├── IRIX\ 6.5\ Foundation\ 1.img
    │   └── IRIX\ 6.5\ Foundation\ 2.img
    ├── nfs
    │   └── ONC3-NFS\ Version\ 3\ for\ IRIX\ 6.2,\ 6.3,\ 6.4\ and\ 6.5-v2.img
    └── overlay30
        ├── Instalation_Tools_and_Overlays1.image
        ├── Overlays2.image
        └── Overlays3.image
</code>

=== OS Install ===

  * At the maintenance boot screen, select "Install Software"
  * If it prompts you for an IP address, enter the same address you entered into the Vagrantfile config for clientip.
  * Use irixboot as the install server hostname.
  * For the installation path, this depends on your directory structure. If you use the structure example from above, you would use the path foundation/dist. Notice the lack of leading /.
  * This should load the miniroot over the network and boot into the installer.
  * To access the other distributions you extracted, use open irixboot:<directory>/dist.
  * Installer menu options are:
    * Open each CD
    * Open foundation first
    * Then overlay30
    * Then the others
    * inst> install default
    * keep all conflicts
    * go

=== Initial setup ===

  * Need to have a PS2 mouse/kb connected.
  * Need a LCD monitor.
  * Connect SGI to regular network at this point.

  * Run through the EZSetup. 
    * Create a non-root user
    * Attempt to configure via DHCP. This didn't work for me.

=== Networking ===
  * vi /etc/config/static-route.options
  * Add an entry at the bottom:
<code>$ROUTE $QUIET add -net default 192.168.0.1</code>

=== Nekoware ===
  * mkdir /usr/nekoware
  * Get the nekodeps.pl script from here: http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/irix/nekoware-installer/
  * And put it in /usr/nekoware
  * Run ./nekodeps.pl --configure
  * nekodeps needs 'wget' in /usr/ne