CD Descriptions

Core IRIX CDs

Your IRIX 6.5 package includes the following core CDs. Load the CDs in the order listed here, and always load any other CDs after the core IRIX CDs.

Note: You may also be interested in the Software/CD Index, which provides an alphabetical listing of IRIX 6.5 software products and the CDs on which they are located.

1. IRIX 6.5 Installation Tools CD (Must be Installed First)
   Load this CD first! Contains the miniroot and other components necessary to boot the system into the basic installation environment for operating system installs and upgrades. Also contains patches.
   
   
2. IRIX 6.5 Foundation 1 CD (Must be Installed)
   Contains the base operating system, base networking, and Application Binary Interfaces (APIs). Includes execution environment ("eoe") components, which are necessary for the execution of most applications.
   
   
3. IRIX 6.5 Foundation 2 CD (Must be Installed)
   Contains additional base operating system/execution environment components.
   
   
4. IRIX 6.5 Applications CD (Required for Workstations and Some Servers)
   Contains standard, bundled applications and related documentation. See the IRIX 6.5 Applications page for more details.
   
   
5. IRIX 6.5 Development Foundation CD (For Developers)
   Contains products necessary for software development, including libraries, header files, a linker, assembler and other common tools required for hosting software development. This CD contains compiler components necessary for use with the MIPSpro C, C++, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers (which are purchased separately). See the IRIX Development Foundation (IDF ) Release Notes for compiler installation notes.
   
   
6. IRIX 6.5 Development Libraries CD (For Developers)
   Includes additional libraries, header files, sample source code, and documentation. You may need some of these products for compiling your own source code, while others simplify debugging or writing code.Scientific libraries are included as well as OpenGL and the popular ViewKit user interface library.
   Note: If you intend to use the compilers, dev.sw.lib (and dev.sw.lib64 for 64-bit development) must be installed.
   
   
7. IRIX 6.5 Documentation CD (Not for Installation)
   This CD allows you to view release notes, online books, and man pages before you install or upgrade the operating system. See the Documentation CD page for details.

Other CDs

In addition to the CDs listed above, you probably received other CDs with your IRIX 6.5 package, depending on your configuration. For example, there are separate CDs for NFS, SoftWindows, and demos. If you already have older versions of any of these products installed, you should upgrade them during the operating system upgrade. If you do not load them, "conflict" messages (during the upgrade process) will prompt you to load them.

Each of these separate products come with their own installation instructions, and you can load any additional new products or subsystems after the initial operating system upgrade is finished and the system has restarted.