3 Feb
2008
3 Feb
'08
12:01 p.m.
hello,
I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard that you
can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I couldnt boot
from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my
laptop. is there any good
windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX
media and keep them
bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded, although not
compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant download
things. thanks!!
-Joe
4 Feb
4 Feb
4:52 a.m.
joe lobocki wrote:
hello,
I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard that you
can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I couldnt boot
from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my laptop. is there any good
windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX media and keep them
bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded, although not
compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant download
things. thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat /dev/cdrom >
image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.
11:38 a.m.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 02:52 -0700, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
joe lobocki wrote:
If you insist on Win32, I believe something called "MagicISO"
http://www.magiciso.com/ should read the disks completely. However, its
shareware 30$. (I've not actually tried it /w Irix disks, so YMMV)
But the Linux method is the free one. Just use something fairly
modern /w read-write NTFS support (if you need it) in the rescue image,
and do the cat/dd route.
hello,
I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard that you
can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I couldnt boot
from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my laptop. is there any good
windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX media and keep them
bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded, although not
compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant download
things. thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat /dev/cdrom >
image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.
12:39 p.m.
yuck a couple of years ago someone offered to load up
a hard drive with IRIX if I sent them one. He also
offered to put a demo version of, uh, trying to
remember, 100% Alcohol or something like that on it.
It was, TTBOMK, a cd-burning program. Hope that helps.
I never took advantage. Some really kewell fellow on
the list sent me a whole bloomin box of IRIX warez.
Sealed and all. Hot diggity.
--- David Holland <dholland at woh.rr.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 02:52 -0700, Andrew Warkentin
wrote:
use "cat /dev/cdrom
>
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joe lobocki wrote:
>hello,
>I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX
media. I have heard that you
>can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a
decent
backup, except I couldnt boot
>from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly
on
my laptop. is there any good
>windows based program that would copy and
image
my IRIX media and keep them
>bootable? if none for windows, i do have
ubuntu
linux loaded, although not
>compatible with my network devices so it is
rarely used and cant download
things.
thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to image.iso" or similar in a shell under
Linux.
If you insist on Win32, I believe something called
"MagicISO"
http://www.magiciso.com/ should read the disks
completely. However, its
shareware 30$. (I've not actually tried it /w Irix
disks, so YMMV)
But the Linux method is the free one. Just use
something fairly
modern /w read-write NTFS support (if you need it)
in the rescue image,
and do the cat/dd route.
7:39 p.m.
sweet! i think its alcohol 120%, but I think I will try the linux thing
because that sounds like it will work the best. so the ISO file is the WHOLE
DISC, boot tracks and all, and will burn the image exactly as it was copied?
I have had knowledge and worked with ISO files, but they have always been a
gray area for me as to how they worked. thanks for the ideas!
On Feb 4, 2008 11:39 AM, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
yuck a couple of years ago someone offered to load up
a hard drive with IRIX if I sent them one. He also
offered to put a demo version of, uh, trying to
remember, 100% Alcohol or something like that on it.
It was, TTBOMK, a cd-burning program. Hope that helps.
I never took advantage. Some really kewell fellow on
the list sent me a whole bloomin box of IRIX warez.
Sealed and all. Hot diggity.
--- David Holland <dholland at woh.rr.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 02:52 -0700, Andrew
Warkentin
wrote:
use "cat /dev/cdrom
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
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joe lobocki wrote:
>hello,
>I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX
media. I have heard that you
>can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a
decent
backup, except I couldnt boot
>from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly
on
my laptop. is there any good
>windows based program that would copy and
image
my IRIX media and keep them
>bootable? if none for windows, i do have
ubuntu
linux loaded, although not
>compatible with my network devices so it is
rarely used and cant download
things.
thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to image.iso" or similar in a shell under
Linux.
If you insist on Win32, I believe something called
"MagicISO"
http://www.magiciso.com/ should read the disks
completely. However, its
shareware 30$. (I've not actually tried it /w Irix
disks, so YMMV)
But the Linux method is the free one. Just use
something fairly
modern /w read-write NTFS support (if you need it)
in the rescue image,
and do the cat/dd route.
5 Feb
5 Feb
3:25 a.m.
joe lobocki wrote:
sweet! i think its alcohol 120%, but I think I will try
the linux thing
because that sounds like it will work the best. so the ISO file is the WHOLE
DISC, boot tracks and all, and will burn the image exactly as it was copied?
I have had knowledge and worked with ISO files, but they have always been a
gray area for me as to how they worked. thanks for the ideas!
It should boot. SGI MIPS workstations boot from a small partition
containing a stand-alone shell. They don't really use "boot tracks". As
long as you make an image of the whole CD rather than just the main
partition, it will work (and Linux doesn't support partitions on CDs, so
that is all that you can do under Linux).
3:28 a.m.
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:52:21 -0700
Andrew Warkentin <andreww at datanet.ab.ca> wrote:
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use
"cat /dev/cdrom
image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.
This will not generate a 100%
1:1 copy. cat(1) or dd(1) will copy some
extra sectors at the end of the media. (Lead out?) I use cdrdao(1) on
unixish systems. It reads the TOC of the CD, copies all tracks of the
CD and records metadata to generate a 100% 1:1 copy later. I made images
(and later copies) of all my IRIX CDs and cdrdao(1) works well. I did
this on an Octane running IRIX 6.5.2something.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
6 Feb
6 Feb
1:04 p.m.
Andrew Warkentin wrote:
joe lobocki wrote:
More like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=./image.iso" or similar.
Peace... Sridhar
hello,
I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard
that you
can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I
couldnt boot
from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my laptop. is there
any good
windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX media and keep
them
bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded, although
not
compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant download
things. thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat /dev/cdrom >
image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.
6:12 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Andrew Warkentin wrote:
cat works just as well as dd there. dd is mainly for transferring data
in blocks, such as when writing an image to a device (although cat
usually works there as well), or for copying parts of files.
joe lobocki wrote:
More like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=./image.iso" or similar.
Peace... Sridhar
hello,
I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard
that you
can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I
couldnt boot
from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my laptop. is there
any good
windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX media and
keep them
bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded,
although not
compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant
download
things. thanks!!
-Joe
The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat
/dev/cdrom > image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.
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