using non-sgi cdrom drive for install

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4 total messages Started by Peter Apian-Bennewitz Tue, 05 Jan 1993 12:54

#88

Author: Peter Apian-Bennewitz
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 12:54

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Hi & happy new year,

I know that this has been discussed before, but
didn't found any references. sorry is its FAQ.
It is also clear that all the questions are answered
by buying a sgi cd drive. Just out of curiousity,
how do I install stuff via a non-sgi cd drive,
attached to a remote non-sgi workstation ?

1. exec environment is installed via local tape (4.0.1)
   (local machine VGX320)

2. a SUN drive is attached to an Indigo (R3000), but
   fails with SCSI timeouts (hinv o.k.).

3. the develop. SGI-CD is fed into an HP drive attached to
   an HP750, but couldn't be mounted.

4. same with SUN drive attached to an ELC

5. (haha, new idea:) the CD is copied from the remote
   (HP drive/750) raw device via dd to an Indigo raw
   disk file (/dev/rdsk/dks0d2s6). mount fails and fsck
   doesn't like the raw disk at all.

I understand that HP and SUN don't accept the efs filesystem
on the installation disks and that non-sgi drives won't work
on sgi boxes (may or may not).
Why does the raw-raw transfer from remote drive to local disk fails ?
dd problems (filled-up blocks etc.) or more basic ?

Many thanks,

Peter


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Re: using non-sgi cdrom drive for install

#89

Author: Dave Olson
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:03

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In <apian.726235733@ise.fhg.de> apian@ise.fhg.de (Peter Apian-Bennewitz) writes:
| 1. exec environment is installed via local tape (4.0.1)
|    (local machine VGX320)
| 
| 2. a SUN drive is attached to an Indigo (R3000), but
|    fails with SCSI timeouts (hinv o.k.).

This is known to work on some systems and not others, it may be different
revs of the Sun (actually a Sony) drive though.

| 3. the develop. SGI-CD is fed into an HP drive attached to
|    an HP750, but couldn't be mounted.
| 
| 4. same with SUN drive attached to an ELC

It is in EFS format, as are all of our installable CD's so far.
There was a program posted here called efslook, which could be
compiled on Sun's (at least) if you copied some SGI header files
there, and you could then extract the files in a manner similar
to the mtools DOS stuff into a directory.  Then you can do a normal
remote directory install.

If  you can't find efslook, I'm sure the author (not at SGI) wouldn't
mind if I repost it.

| 5. (haha, new idea:) the CD is copied from the remote
|    (HP drive/750) raw device via dd to an Indigo raw
|    disk file (/dev/rdsk/dks0d2s6). mount fails and fsck
|    doesn't like the raw disk at all.

Yep, bring up sash, and copy partition *7* (not the whole thing).
7 is the file system partition our installable CD's.

Assuming CD at ID #4, and spare partition 7 on drive 5), do 

	cp -b 31k dksc(0,4,7) dksc(0,5,7)
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

Re: using non-sgi cdrom drive for install

#98

Author: Phil Dench
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:42

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apian@ise.fhg.de (Peter Apian-Bennewitz) writes:

>Hi & happy new year,

>I know that this has been discussed before, but
>didn't found any references. sorry is its FAQ.
>It is also clear that all the questions are answered
>by buying a sgi cd drive. Just out of curiousity,
>how do I install stuff via a non-sgi cd drive,
>attached to a remote non-sgi workstation ?

<stuff deleted>

as dave olson says in his reply to your comp.sys.sgi article
there is a thing called efslook that I wrote to read an SG
inst disk from a sun. If you still want it, i can send you a copy.

Phil

Re: using non-sgi cdrom drive for install

#118

Author: Phil Dench
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 09:44

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a couple of people have asked for efslook, so I've 
put a copy in our ftp area. Just anon ftp to
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (134.7.1.1) and grab
pub/architec/efslook.tar.Z. 

Phil

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