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While interesting, a yak shave is where you go off on a long excursion to solve a problem that helps you solve the real problem. This, on the other hand, is just having a hobby. Calling it yak shaving doesn't seem appropriate.
Not too bad. I was expecting the first shaving step to be about the OS media requiring 520 byte sectors and thus needing a "fancier" CD writer/reader. Maybe that was Sun, not SGI?
I think the whole 512 byte sector CD-ROM thing was common to all the 90's-era "Real UNIX" machines. They generally all wanted to treat CDs like a hard drive, for booting purposes. (PCs, on the other hand, did a different weird hack where they'd embed a floppy image at the state of the CD and the BIOS knew how to handle that.)
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Pretty much weighs as much as a jet engine, too. j/k, of course, but it's clearly the heaviest desktop system I've ever seen.
Definitely heavy as a neutron star! TBH, the coolest looking one (to me at least) is/was Indigo 2. Both green and purple one! They ARE more manageable.
While interesting, a yak shave is where you go off on a long excursion to solve a problem that helps you solve the real problem. This, on the other hand, is just having a hobby. Calling it yak shaving doesn't seem appropriate.
If I was trying to do this project, I'd just do what it took to get an EFS-supporting OS up and running, expose via NFS, and be done with it.
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Definitely heavy as a neutron star! TBH, the coolest looking one (to me at least) is/was Indigo 2. Both green and purple one! They ARE more manageable.
As an indigo^2 user: holy shit they were trinitron heavy, too. But the internals of that case were [stunningly beautiful]( http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/i2/i2open.jpg ).
Good to see some folks using my 'irixboot' utility in the wild. Looks like it worked! Also, the whole process by which the Development CD image is extracted could have been easily handled by irixboot and you can use irixboot as a 'dist' install source within the already-installed OS.