Formatting a system disk - O2 Irix 6.5.8

Please back up the directory
/pogle/data
before you proceed with this update.

All commands must be typed on the SGI keyboard.

You will need the following six CD's

Boot the O2 and hit the escape button to Stop for Maintainance ( or click on the Stop for Maintainance icon)
Enter the Command Monitor
Type in hinv <enter> to check the SCSI ID of the internal CDROM drive and the system Hard Disc
( Usually, the CDROM is ID 4 and the hard drive is ID 1 on controller 0)
Insert the CD IRIX 6.5.8 Installation Tools and Overlays Disk 1 in the reader.
Type in the following where both occurences of 4 should be the SCSI ID of the CDROM.

boot -f dksc(0,4,8)sashARCS dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.ARCS --x

Type the following

From the engineering menu, click on Install System Software.
Choose the drive Local CDROM and click on Install then Continue.
The system will display a bar icon showing Copying Installation Tools to Disk
At the prompt to make a new file system, type in yes <enter>
At the prompt Are You Sure? Type in y <enter>
At the prompt for block size, type in 4096 <enter>
You should now see the inst> prompt with a series of numerical options.
Type 13 (admin) <enter>
Type 11 (mkfs) <enter>
At the prompt to clean the disk, type y <enter>
At the prompt to make a new filesystem, type yes <enter>
At the Admin> prompt, hit <enter> to go to the numerical menu.
Type 21 (return) <enter>

Type 1 (from) <enter>
Type 1 (CDROM/dist) <enter>
You will now see the first page of a long introduction. Type n <enter> to ignore the rest of this script
You will be asked to select either Maintainance or Feature stream, select 2(feature) <enter>
The system will read the distribution off the disk, then prompt you to insert other disks.
Insert the CDs in this order:

  1. Installation Tools and Overlays Disk 1 of 3( This should already be in the drive)
  2. Installation Tools and Overlays Disk 2 of 3
  3. Installation Tools and Overlays Disk 3of 3
  4. Foundation Disk 1
  5. Foundation Disk 2
  6. Applications ( type in n <enter> to ignore the startup script)

Press <enter> after you have inserted each CD.
Follow the requests by the system regarding the CDs until the system has read all five disks.
At the prompt, type 2 (done) <enter>

You should now see the inst> prompt again
Hit the <enter> key to return to the numerical options.
Type in:
8 *dev <enter>
8 nfs <enter>
10 (conflicts) <enter>
If there are any conflicts with the software resolve them by typing:
conflicts 1x 2x <enter>
where x is the choice of resolution. You do not need to install dvdr.booksor appletalk

You are now ready to go. Type in 5 <enter>
Follow the prompts for the various CDs as the system asks for them ( you may have to use some CDs twice )
At some point you may encounter errors installing Appletalk. This is not a problem.
Type in 3(continue)<enter> to carry on.
Eventually the system will tell you that it has finished installing software. At the inst> prompt, hit the  <enter>key to go to the numeric menu. Choose 14 (quit)<enter> and the system will (eventually) quit inst. You will be prompted that the system is ready to restart. Type in y <enter> to restart.

Put all six CDs in their covers and put them somewhere safe.

When the system is back up, log in as root, open a console and type in;
chkconfig webface off<enter>

Install Platinum as detailed elsewhere.

Please note: Irix 6.5.x re-writes the SCSI drivers EVERY time the O2 is restarted. If the Pogle workstation is not connected or is powered down when you start the O2, you will not be able to run Platinum.