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- From: marksteg@merv.detroit.sgi.com (Mark Stegbauer)
- Subject: Re: Switching Elan board between computers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.203149.4604@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- References: <1e1cdkINNb6u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1e1jfiINN2ii@fangio.asd.sgi.com> <1992Nov14.022044.2165@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:31:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.022044.2165@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
- |> In article <1e1jfiINN2ii@fangio.asd.sgi.com> rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller) writes:
- |> >desilva@luxor.ced.berkeley.edu (Deanan Da Silva) writes:
- |> >>Is it possible to put an ELAN board from a Crimson into
- |> >>an Indigo
- |> >
- |> >You'll also need to reinstall the O/S on the Indigo and, likely,
- |> >the Crimson.
- |>
- |> Speaking of which... we just added an Elan board to an Indigo R4K
- |> running Irix 4.0.5F. Following instructions from the TAC, I tried
- |> reinstalling eoe1.sw.unix from the 4.0.5F execution-only CD. After
- |> restarting, the console came up blank, but I could login remotely.
- |> So, I tried reinstalling all of eoe1.sw, and still got just a blank
- |> screen. I did 'set neweroverride' both times, and verified that
- |> /usr/lib/libgl_s did in fact get replaced. Is there anthing else that
- |> needs to be done to reconfigure the system for the new board? Should
- |> I reinstall more stuff? I remember reading a post about this a few
- |> weeks ago, but I didn't save it, because I thought the instructions
- |> were more or less what I would have tried on my own...
- |>
- |> - David Hinds
- |> dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
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- reload eoe2, it has the graphics sw on it.
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