irix.cc network irix install server?

[radiance]

Hi all,

What about setting up an Irix 6.5.22 and 6.5.30 install server on www.irix.cc ?
Basically everything you need to boot and do a complete network installation of irix on your SGI system over your network interface,
no downloading of CD-ROM images, burning, finding an old SCSI CD-ROM drive and cables if necessary,
and also no need of a 2nd SGI machine or linux box to host the boot/install environment...

Besides the server, we could make some simple to follow procedures in a how-to document,
so a newbie who finds an old SGI machine with no OS can easily install irix through the irix.cc network install server
by following the tasks in the online wiki how-to document.
Per machine-type specific tasks can be added so users with an Octane for example can add the optional Octane demos etc...

This would be a such a handy tool to have

What do you think?
Radiance

[Raion]

It won't happen. IRIX PROMs do not allow DNS or external routing.

[radiance]

It won't happen. IRIX PROMs do not allow DNS or external routing.

Damn, for some reason I thought they did...

Still, it would be cool if we could build a simpler solution for people with no CD-ROM drives etc...
A simple, single file you download and run on a linux machine or something that turns it into an irix install server with no configuration or similar...
I'll have to think about it,

Too bad!,
Radiance

[dexter1]

An additional problem is that an IRIX install server needs to provide TFTP and BOOTP services and remote shell access with root rights. Good luck with running such a server on the WWW.

For IRIX installation solutions we already have DINA , irixboot and irix-install

There's no way around having a physical (or virtual) server inside your network if you want to install IRIX systems via the net.
Having said that, you can get away with as small as a Raspberry Pi for an install server:does 100 Mbit/s, has SD card with plenty of space and is dirt cheap.