[rescue] Duping CDs in Solaris

[Big Endian]

>      Assuming that I want to make one copy, and don't mind waiting two
>weeks, this is fine.  However, my fiancee just rescued a buttload of
>Indigo2 workstations[1], tossed out by MIT.  No media kit was included, so
>she'd like a copy.

Kick ass.  I2s rock.

>      I don't want to wait 4 weeks for CDs. :)
>
>      I'm guessing that I need to:
>      1) Kill vold
>      2) dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 of=/export/home/jp/tmp.iso
>      3) cdrecord -dev=0,2,0 /export/home/jp/tmp.iso

This is exactly what I do w/ my cds in general.  It seems to work for 
Mac, ISO9660, SGI, Sun and HP cds so far.

>      Any mistakes/gotchas?  EFS CDs are partitioned strangely--will a
>straight dd get everything I need?  The CDR on the Ultra is an old 2x IDE
>job of unknown condition, FWIW.

daniel
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Fragile. Do not drop." -- Posted on a Boeing 757.