First post from Octane2!!!

Ufff, this was a long week. After my first successful IRIX installation I tried to download de IRIX 6.5.22 overlays from SGI supportfolio. After a few minutes downloading the first file a full disc warning appeared on screen. With a clean installation in a 18Gb disk it is impossible and I start to look the fault. I found that the hard disk had a 15 Gb partition unmounted. I tried to mount without success.

After one night of work I decided to reformat my hard disk and reinstall everything. This was the third attempt but was the best. Wednesday night IRIX was installed without any problem (except a AppleShare application fault, but is normal). Thursday I downloaded the overays and this weekend the overlays and firefox (from nekoware!!!) are installed successful!!!.

Now my Octane2 is full working (I think) and I can start my projects WOW.

I'm tired. more tomorrow.... See you.

I have a working system!!!

YES... my Octane2 has Irix working from today. At the start of this week I received the Irix Package (6.5.11) and the SCSI cable I need for my CD-ROM reader. It was not a easy thing and three times I needed to have my Octane2 booting correctly. First I have problems with the CD reader (Sony) and I changed with an old Plextor. The second time I did't open the discs 2 and 3 of the Overlays and when the system was restarted... It just hang.

Fortunately this night I tried to install just the Overlays (3 cd set). After open this cd's in the install menu (using "boot" command because the Prom was unable to boot from CD), the installer ask for NFS disc. 3 Conflicts was resolved easy: Not install the conflics (BLAS library). And then... REBOOT.

After a long time booting I saw the user menu and I was able to select the EZInst user. I network and desktop and a new restart came. This time I logged with my new user acount a I saw the IRIX desktop. COOL!!!!!!

After logging new network configuration (Routing and DNS), new reboot and I found this:
This is Netscape Navigator with the Neko forums opened. You can see that the result is not fantastic but... I will install Firefox this weekend (after an upgrade to 6.5.22 from SGI Supportfolio).

Ahh, important if you have to install Irix: read this document writed by Ian Mapleson. Without this I could not install nothing!!!!

This is the good news but I have a bad one (not very bat but...): The graphic card is a V6. With the price I paid for the system is OK but I need a better one if I chage my monitor to a Wide 22".