I have INDIGO2 workstation On start up gives message unable to boot. how to solve the issue? if terminal is opened it is also not accepting any command. Is it possible to upgrade Indigo 2 programs with old IRIX 5.3 to latest UBUNU distro?

I am new to Linux and want to replicate a hard drive, having IRIX 5.3 installed. Please guide the easy and best way.

I have an old PC with a program called atomTV, for viewing, and producing movies from molecular trajectory files. I only have a binary, and the platform it ran on was 64-bit MIPS architecture, where I was running IRIX. I have spoke with the creator, and he says he lost the source. My IRIX PC has died recently, but I still want to use this program. What can be done? The files are xyz, dcd, pdb and that type of thing. Preferably, I would like to know some way to run the program in a modern Unix/Linux environment. I have access to all the old files from the OS if that matters. When I tried to run the program in Linux, I got wrong ELF type errors.

I started using IRIX 6.2 so I could do some Nintendo 64 Development for the IRIX community. WARNING: IT IS A VERY WEIRD SITUATION! Also, I am using root. The file manager GUI states that the files that exist do, in fact, exist in the directory. The console states that all of these files exist as well when I type "ls" into the console in the "/" directory. I can delete, move, copy, and link files from the console. However, when I go to the files in the file manager GUI and right click on the folders, it says that does not exist. This also happens when I try to copy and link these files. I have tried logging into other accounts on my computer (such as the guest or demo accounts), but I still get the same errors. I have also tried asking other people on the IRIX forums and the IRIX discord, but they don't really know what the problem is. Here is where you can find that forum post, although nobody really knows what to do as I have tried what they have said. Does anyone here have any answers or ideas of what the problem could be? Posted on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IRIX/comments/c32j7e/irix_62_filesystem_issues/0 The output I get when I do ls -l: -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 167 Oct 11 12:14 .Sgiresources -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1085 Sep 30 05:35 .acrorc -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 601 Sep 25 09:11 .cshrc drwxr-xr-x 6 root sys 4096 Oct 11 12:26 .desktop-IRIS drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 4096 Oct 12 18:31 .desktop-RYAN drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 9 Sep 25 17:06 .ebtpriv -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 704 Sep 25 09:11 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 446 Oct 12 11:20 .neditdb drwx------ 3 root sys 4096 Oct 11 12:28 .netscape -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 638 Sep 25 09:11 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 30 Oct 8 18:11 .sgihelprc -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 41 Oct 11 12:04 .syserr -rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 885 Sep 25 09:11 .varupdate drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 55 Sep 27 17:29 .webcache -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 100 Sep 30 05:35 .weblink -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 296 Sep 25 16:49 .webspace-preferences -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 73 Sep 25 12:30 .wshttymode drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 9 Sep 27 17:28 APPS -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 59153408 Sep 27 17:25 Apps.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 467197952 Sep 27 19:03 IDO6.2.tar drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 9 Sep 27 19:30 MIPSPro -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 21200896 Sep 26 18:25 Mips.tar -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 82160 Oct 8 14:54 Models drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 45 Sep 28 19:32 Nedit drwxr-xr-x 8 root sys 125 Sep 26 18:26 OS2.0K_FULL_PAK drwxr-xr-x 9 root sys 4096 Oct 11 19:26 OS20I drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 24 Sep 27 10:37 TestGame -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 83496 Oct 9 14:13 av8b.flt lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 7 Sep 25 09:11 bin -> usr/bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 83496 Oct 9 14:13 boris1.flt -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 83510 Oct 9 14:23 borisman.flt -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Oct 9 17:19 cradle.aifc -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 11805772 Oct 9 17:07 cradle.aiff -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3212230 Oct 2 17:03 cradle.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 396 Oct 9 17:15 cradle.table lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 4 Sep 25 12:28 debug -> proc drwxr-xr-x 16 root sys 12288 Oct 12 12:28 dev drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 27 Oct 1 17:47 dumpster drwxr-xr-x 14 root sys 4096 Oct 12 12:28 etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 665600 Oct 9 16:07 freeglut-2.4.0-2.tgc-irix6.2-mips3-tgcware.tardist -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 45364 Sep 28 02:27 gl drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 4096 Sep 27 19:09 help drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 33 Sep 27 17:29 insight -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 329195520 Sep 28 07:02 irix-development-foundation-1.2-for-irix-6.2.tardist drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 72 Sep 27 11:13 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 39 Sep 27 11:13 lib32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 91344 Oct 9 14:26 monkey.flt drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 4096 Oct 12 11:20 n64game -r-xr-xr-x 2 244 user 1275560 Jun 12 2002 nedit -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1218560 Oct 9 16:07 nedit-5.5-2.tgc-irix6.2-mips3-tgcware.tardist drwx------ 2 root sys 23 Sep 25 16:57 nsmail drwxr-xr-x 8 root sys 101 Sep 27 09:06 opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 117053440 Sep 26 16:58 os20k.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 14 Oct 11 17:37 password dr-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 9264 Oct 12 18:40 proc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 46172 Sep 28 02:27 pt drwxr-xr-x 29 root sys 4096 Sep 27 19:10 relnotes -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 35 Oct 11 12:27 root.home drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 4096 Sep 25 11:17 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 20 Sep 25 09:11 stand -rwxr-xr-x 1 OutOfBox demos 1048 Sep 25 09:34 systemtour drwxrwxrwt 4 sys sys 73 Oct 12 18:30 tmp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 3541908 Oct 12 12:27 unix drwxr-xr-x 35 root sys 4096 Oct 12 12:28 usr drwxr-xr-x 26 root sys 4096 Sep 27 17:32 var

I have a small collection of old, custom programs for IRIX on SGI MIPS, some of which I need to run for work related reasons because there are no modern alternatives available and we need to access them for legacy stuff in the back room. I'm just the guy that was lucky enough to get tasked with finding a solution. There's no source code available and little to no documentation on any of it. What are my options short of spending $1000+ for a powerful and fully functional SGI workstation on ebay? I'm hesitant because, you know, it's ebay. And it's not like I can buy these things new from SGI anymore, which means I'll have to take my chances by relying purely on re-sellers of used and refurbished products. I spoke with SGI on the phone and they said that they don't support the hardware or software and that they won't even provide me with documentation or part numbers, so I'm out of luck on that end. IRIX simply won't boot in QEMU no matter how closely I try to configure it to match the real hardware, probably due to the custom graphics hardware and all kinds of little undocumented hacks and fixes for optimization done by the engineers in those old machines. I know there are people on Nekochan forums working on this and they've got some kind of headless boot in QEMU, but I need the whole OS and GUI to work. It doesn't have to be stable or all that fast, it just needs to work well enough to run these programs I have.

How could I go about finding uneven file/directory permissions within a directory structure? I've made some attempts at using the find command similar to: find /bin ! \( -perm 777 -o -perm 776 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 774 -o -perm 773 -o -perm 772 -o -perm 771 -o -perm 770 -o -perm 760 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 740 -o -perm 730 -o -perm 720 -o -perm 710 -o -perm 700 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 500 -o -perm 400 but I run out of command line before I can complete the remaining permutations plus an -exec ls -lL {} \; I've also been doing manual things similar to: ls -lL /bin | grep -v ^-rwxr-xr-x | grep -v ^-rwx--x--x | grep -v ^-rwsr-xr-x | grep -v ^-r-xr-xr-x | grep -v ^-rwxr-xr-t but again, I run out of command line before I can complete the remaining permutations. Both methods seem unusually awkward. Is there a better, faster, easier way? Note that I'm restricted in the shell I'm using (sh) and platform (Irix 6.5.22).

I have been asked to setup a lab with 1 PC (fedora 18 OS) and 4 SGI (IRIX 6.5 OLD OS). I am using a switch to connect them to university's network, and I asked tech guys to assign static IPs to them. Now I have statics assigned and I can ping all the machines, but I can't use SSH or FTP for a remote access. Do I need to make any configuration?

I'm telnetting into an IRIX 64 server and I'm trying to create shortcuts to emacs, gvim, and other executables that are stored in a certain directory. I tried using the alias command on the command line in the following manner: alias gvim="/usr/.../gvim" alias emacs="/usr/.../emacs" ... but whenever I try this and run emacs/gvim, it still doesn't work. And when I run alias -p, nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?