Hi,
> I have just aquired an Indy with a bust hard disk. It has no floppy
> drives, but it has a cdrom.
Nice ...
> Any idea what to do to make it work (aside
> from getting a new hard disk)? I have used Linux on PC's before but I have
> never seen an SGI before today!
I assume you intend to buy a harddisk for the Indy ? Any narrow SCSI
disk should work.
If you have another Unix machine on your network you can try netbooting the
Indy via bootp/tftp and run the installer via a ramdisk image or NFS root
file system. As my only SGI machine is a R3000 Indigo I never tried this
myself with a Linux kernel on SGI hardware but we managed to get sash (the
IRIX standalone shell) booted over the network on the Indigo.
regards,
Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.org)
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