> (To recap - i have a bust irix installation AND a tar backup on the same
> drive. My answer lies in being able to uncompress the tar archive over the
> installed irix installation. I cannot boot the os as it is - cause its half
> 6.5.5 and 6.5.11, duh! - and I don't think i can instigate anything much
> from the PROM - pointers welcome - so my solution would be to stick the
> drive in another computer that can read/write to the disk and unarchive the
> tar, pop the drive back in and bingo!)
>
> How about this : I have a spare Indigo2. It's running 6.2. It cannot read
> the disk either - for reasons i don't know, but best guess the same
> blocksize issue. Would xfsdump work on here to the same effect ? I'm out of
> SCA to SCSI converters, but if this would work, i could 'find' one PDQ :)
As long as you have a good swap partition (if not you could boot into fx from
prom and create one), you can boot into miniroot on the Octane from CD by
using the "install system software" option. Once in, do a "shroot" and it
will do a chroot to your /root directory. Outside of that you could maybe try
something using the Indigo2 as a diskless workstation server, boot up your
Octane from the Indigo2 and then manually mount your local drive.
Thomas Suiter
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