[rescue] More IRIX questions: why won't it boot from my 6.5.24 CDs?

[Kevin]

That's what i use to image everything else, but never tried it on the IRIX
CDs as i had the original SGI discs.  I thought other people have tried
this with no success?



On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:47:56 -0500
"John Garvin" <jgarvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/7/07, Kevin <kevin at pipeline.com> wrote:
> > With the way things have gone with IRIX and SGI, it might be
advantageous
> > for us to spend some time trying to figure out how to successfully copy
the
> > EFS CDs into an image that could be copied using any platform....
> >
> >
> When I made images of the 6.5 CDs, I didn't use anything more exotic
> than dd. I wrote to a file and pointed cdrecord at the same file to
> burn it - no magic with blocksizes or anything like that.
> Just Works.
> -- 
> jpg
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