18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
1:38 p.m.
On Dec 18, 10:56, Christopher Smith wrote:
Well, I've never met a standard CD that it
wouldn't work on. I was told
third-hand by somebody who worked for SGI that their media was somehow
"copy
protected" and couldn't be reproduced well.
I've successfully imaged my IRIX 6.2 media and booted/installed my system
from the backup. Works fine.
Same experience here. i've made copies of IRIX CDs, and I've made
non-standard bootable distribution CDs. The only unusual feature is that
they're an EFS filesystem rather than, say, ISO9660. But as far as a
burner is concerned, an image is an image, and as far as Linux's dd command
is concerned, the same is true (I've copied Apple CDs the same way, by
dd'ing from the raw disk device holding the CD, to a file.).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York