DD'ing IRIX Disks (was Re: [geeks] Apple vs. Sun)

[Jonathan C Patschke]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:06 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>
> It's probably best that I just reinstall. I have the CD's, and I could 
> probably partition better. It's just a rather painfull installation.
>
> But I could do it on my Octane at the same time (it needs a clean 
> install onto a larger disk as well).
>
> Maybe I will catch up on some taped TV shows while I shuffle disks.

Do a network install.  It's much less painful, and, so long as you 
install -just- what you need to get the system up and running 
(Foundation, Overlays, and NFS), it doesn't take very long, either.

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Jonathan C. Patschke
Celestrion Information Systems
Thorndale, TX