This flier provides information about installing the IRIX 6.5.4 operating system to prevent a possible system panic or hang problem when you have the Octane Compression option board installed in an Octane workstation. The problem occurs at boot-up after the system has been powered off for a while.
If you have received a new Octane workstation with the Octane Compression board installed and it is running IRIX 6.5.4 (or later), no action is needed.
If you have received the Octane Compression board as an upgrade, follow these instructions:
Install the hardware.
Determine which version of the IRIX you are running.
From the Toolchest, open a UNIX shell.
Type uname -R. Press Enter.
The version of the operating system appears.
Install the Octane 6.5 Compression software.
Install IRIX 6.5.4 (or later) and then install the images listed in step 5. If IRIX 6.5.4 (or later) is already installed, install just the images listed in step 5.
Install the following overlays found on the IRIX 6.5.4 (or later) Overlay (2 of 2) CD. From the /dist/unbundled directory, install impactcomp and impactdm.