Re: how to find out unknown machine IP ?

From: Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler (nicoya_at_ubb.ca)
Date: 11/28/05

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    In article <pgzveydtc9d.fsf@kruuna.helsinki.fi>,
     Atro Tossavainen <Atro.Tossavainen+news@helsinki.finland.invalid> wrote:

    : Plus you'd need to do it on another R10k Origin.

    Actually you wouldn't. There's a few settings you can twiddle to get inst to
    install an OS for a different system, most importantly the "-m" option.

         -m hardware=value
              The software distribution for some software products contains
              several hardware-specific copies of the same file. By default inst
              installs the copy that is appropriate for the type of workstation
              you are installing on. The -m option is useful when you are
              installing software on a disk that will be transferred to a
              different type of workstation or when you are extracting files from
              a software distribution for a different type of workstation. In
              both these cases you would probably also use the -r option. The
              inst command admin hardware can be used to view the current hardware
              variables in effect.

              Acceptable arguments are:

                   CPUBOARD=cpu
                   GFXBOARD=gfxboard
                   MODE=mode
                   SUBGR=subgr
                   default

              The default keyword substitutes all of the hardware values for the
              current system. Refer to your /var/inst/machfile for an example of
              the various combinations of hardware configurations currently
              defined. The first section of /var/inst/machfile is a mapping from
              the data returned by getinvent(1M) to the strings used by the -m
              option.

    reading /var/inst/machfile on any suitably recent IRIX install, and consulting
    the output of the "hardware" command from within the "admin" menu in inst will
    give you clues as to what to set the various options to.

    Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :) 

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