O2 systems come pre-installed with IRIX6.3. Otane/Onyx2 systems come pre-installed with IRIX6.4. Do NOT blow away this original installation since you may not be able to find the CD that has the software package(s) already installed on the system. Instead, just do the following manual steps to set the system up with dcs' supportable configurations: set up the scripts in autoinst.acs' each for the sgi system being configured put the system on the network: at the console, pull-down menu from the toolchest to put in ip address, hostname,...(or just vi /etc/hosts,...) Now on the system: chkconfig yp on vi /var/yp/ypdomain   # to put in the (nis) domain name mount /dcs and /dcslib Check to see if /bin/domainname exists. If it doesn't, then you need to install some additional software. Currently installing everything under NFS_6.X_V.2/dist on the "Varsity Update CDROM - Apr 1997 - part# 812-0536-003" works. If you install an older version of nfs/nis, then apply the recommended patch set on an irix6.3 system, it may hang very badly. run-after tell Minh to mount cd's for you on durian to download compilers,... mount autoinst.acs:/auto_install/generic-after/IRIX-6.[3,4]/patches run inst from this area, choose [1] to run the selection script, or [2] to ignore the script then "inst A" instead.  This is to install the recommended patch set. reboot after the patches.  It may be a good idea to "autoconfig -v" before rebooting to make sure the new kernel (if any) will build successfully, or the system will not reboot (then it will cost a trip to the client's site).