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# System prepended metadata

title: General IRIX Setup Notes

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# General Setup Notes

- proclaim (dhcp) doesn't request things like gateway and nameservers by default.  Edit /etc/config/proclaim.options and uncomment the get/renew lines (e.g. option 3 is default gateway)
  - needed to add: 3 (gateway), 6 (nameservers)

- Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove nis from everywhere

- PS2 mice, wheel -- systune pcmouse_mode 1 (or 2). Man pcmouse.  Doesn't seem to work with usb mice.

- failsoftd -- do not want, wtf does it come from?


- setenv MANFMTCMD "groff -Tascii -man" (Fixes eqn and other issues)

- pip3 is missing a /etc/pki -- `sudo ln -s /usr/sgug/etc/pki /etc`

- python eggs fail
```
    ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    ERROR: platform irix646 is not supported
```

