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reset root password
You need to have an OS CD handy (just the first one of any version of IRIX compatible with an Octane - 6.5.x will work and I think 6.4 will as well). As you boot your system, press ESC when you first see the dialogue box that says something like 'Hit ESC for maintenance menu'. Choose to...- wakuuuup
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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Networking
Or SAMBA on your IRIX box. Although this will share the nominated directories on your Octane and make them visible as Windows drives to your PC. This is the opposite of what you describe you would like, but it will achieve connectivity between your machines and give you drag-and-drop file...- wakuuuup
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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Mounting a CD-ROM
You can also restart the mediad daemon with /etc/init.d/mediad stop /etc/init.d/mediad start which might help.- wakuuuup
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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How to get cdrom drive mounted in irix 6.5
Hi ctully1, IRIX runs a daemon called mediad that among other things is responsible for automatically mounting your CDROM drive when you insert one in and automatically unmounting it when you issue an eject command (or use one of the GUIs to eject the CD). The output of your mount command...- wakuuuup
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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Disk Mirroring
You need to use XLV constructs to build a mirror. xlv_make is used to define a XLV volume. You use xlv_make to define striped logical volumes, real-time volumes, mirrored volumes and so on. The xlv_make man pages detail the exact syntax used, but to define a mirror, you need to use the...- wakuuuup
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
