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Hi Guys and Dolls,

Wondering if anyone can help me with this little problem.

I am currently a hpux admin. , but I would like to know more about
IRIX.

Does anyone have any information of what exists in IRIX , and what it
is in hpux ?

I know that the disk devices are pretty much the similar (rather than
the Linux standard).

Anything else ..?

Thanks

Ive

In article <ac7af48c.0401190727.54e9d2f0@posting.google.com >,
Ivan Marshall <Ive_Marshall@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Guys and Dolls,
>
>Wondering if anyone can help me with this little problem.
>
>I am currently a hpux admin. , but I would like to know more about
>IRIX.
>
>Does anyone have any information of what exists in IRIX , and what it
>is in hpux ?

http://techpubs.sgi.com has all the IRIX manuals on line.

A book which shows system admin for various UN*X versions including
IRIX and HP-UX is
Essential System Administration
Aeleen Frisch
Pub by O'Reilly & Assoc
(I like this book. I have no financial interest in it.)
Useful for a comparison.

>I know that the disk devices are pretty much the similar (rather than
>the Linux standard).
>
>Anything else ..?

There are areas of difference, but also major areas where things
are the same across all the UN*X variants.
(Many derived from ATT SYSV R4, including IRIX)
One that is quite different in the config files area is
Mac OS X, which is not in the 2nd ed of ESA I have on my desk.

The 3rd Edition is out, but Amazon shows the table of contents
etc from the 2nd edition, I don't know what is new in the 3rd ed.
Hmm. Time to order...

David Anderson

> >I am currently a hpux admin. , but I would like to know more about
> >IRIX.

Tell you one thing about IRIX, it is hell to install. HP-UX, Solaris,
AIX are reasonably easy. But you have to be a rocket scientist to
install IRIX correctly and it takes ages compared to the others.


--
Who needs a life when you've got Unix? :-)
Email: john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk, John G.Burns B.Eng, Bonny Scotland
Web : http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk - The Ultimate BMW Homepage!
Need Sun or HP Unix kit? http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/unix.html

In article <400C17FB.2E4@unixnerd.demon.co.uk>,
John Burns <john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk> wrote:

: > >I am currently a hpux admin. , but I would like to know more about
: > >IRIX.
:
: Tell you one thing about IRIX, it is hell to install. HP-UX, Solaris,
: AIX are reasonably easy. But you have to be a rocket scientist to
: install IRIX correctly and it takes ages compared to the others.

You've got to be kidding. I could fall asleep while installing IRIX.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler

--
Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler -- Master of Code-fu -- nicoya@ubb.ca
-- http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/ -- http://www.ubb.ca/ --

John Burns wrote:
>>>I am currently a hpux admin. , but I would like to know more about
>>>IRIX.
>
>
> Tell you one thing about IRIX, it is hell to install. HP-UX, Solaris,
> AIX are reasonably easy. But you have to be a rocket scientist to
> install IRIX correctly and it takes ages compared to the others.
>

Strange, IRIX is in my experience not significantly more complicated to
install than other commercial *NIX systems. In fact I found it much more
pleasant to install than Solaris and several GNU/Linux distributions.

Did you punch a hole in your IRIX installation media perhaps?

grts,

avi

In article <nicoya-D7AB62.12373119012004@news.wp.shawcable.net>,
Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler <nicoya@ubb.ca> wrote:
:You've got to be kidding. I could fall asleep while installing IRIX.

I -have- fallen asleep while installing IRIX ;-)
--
Strange but true: there are entire WWW pages devoted to listing
programs designed to obfuscate HTML.

Dans article <buh3vd$o8tjq$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
davea@quasar.engr.sgi.com disait...
>
> A book which shows system admin for various UN*X versions including
> IRIX and HP-UX is
> Essential System Administration
> Aeleen Frisch
>

It's a great book, but the current revision (thrid edition) got rid of
IRIX and IIRC HPox in favor of... Linux and FreeBSD.

--
Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?

> I -have- fallen asleep while installing IRIX ;-)

I have WANTED to! The first few times you do it, not at all easy.

--
Who needs a life when you've got Unix? :-)
Email: john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk, John G.Burns B.Eng, Bonny Scotland
Web : http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk - The Ultimate BMW Homepage!
Need Sun or HP Unix kit? http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/unix.html

In article <MPG.1a766398626ecd1198d481@news.free.fr>,
Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@imaginet.fr> wrote:
>Dans article <buh3vd$o8tjq$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
>davea@quasar.engr.sgi.com disait...
>>
>> A book which shows system admin for various UN*X versions including
>> IRIX and HP-UX is
>> Essential System Administration
>> Aeleen Frisch
>>
>
>It's a great book, but the current revision (thrid edition) got rid of
>IRIX and IIRC HPox in favor of... Linux and FreeBSD.

That's disappointing. The 2nd edition seems available on
Amazon cheaply (though one has to ask for 'all editions' and it
took a bit of work to figure out how to get there). (earlier
edition used-book listings for this book generally don't
mention which edition is being sold -- not nice.)

I recommend the 2nd edition for IRIX/HPUX users who like
comparing UN*Xes. I did order the 3rd edition today, now I'll have to
keep two editions on the shelf...

Regards,
David B. Anderson davea at sgi dot com http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea

John Burns wrote:

>>I -have- fallen asleep while installing IRIX ;-)
>
>
> I have WANTED to! The first few times you do it, not at all easy.
>

If you do it first time from scratch, including prepping the
harddrive(s) etc. - yes, indeed. You need to remember the proper spells
for casting before things start to get going. Later on it becomes quite
a boring and certainly not challenging routine.