Ok to who ever cares, an update. My great horrid Ebay Octane buy :) I think most on this mail list have read my tale but here's a recap. Won an Octane on ebay for $53.00 and $70.+ in shipping. UPS tried to destroy it and almost did. some damage to the system but I dug up an old Hitachi SuperSync Monitor how's that for proof to the wife that all is not junk LOL. anyways the system boots I have an external Lacie CDR/W attached and an unregistered complete copy of IRIX 6.5.4 but I can not install from the cdrom?? I get an error code but If I just allow the system to boot with it attached to my lan it succeeds in going to the log on page Yea..... now the sad part I can't log on because I have no user account. is there a default log on name or password? I've tried all sorts of combos like admin/root or root/admin etc...and nothing works I thought I read somewhere that there is a failsafe log on but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone help me and before we go there ya, when it comes to SGI's and Unix I'm a total newbie or worse.
Regards Richard Morton
David Cummings wrote:
If you're following the Gentoo/MIPS Handbook... you would have set the password in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3>.
If you're trying to install IRIX however.... no idea... This mailing list is for Gentoo Linux/MIPS... not Gentoo IRIX (if such a port ever comes into existance).
Might I suggest perhaps asking the people of the Nekochan community? <http://www.nekochan.net/>
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