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| From | legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.sgi.hardware, comp.sys.sgi.marketplace, comp.sys.sgi.bugs |
| Subject | Re: Are any of these SGI software CD's of any value? |
| Date | 2012-12-11 00:06 +0000 |
| Organization | multi-cellular, biological |
| Message-ID | <ka5tes$762$1@news.xmission.com> (permalink) |
| References | <50BABBB6.229B85DB@Guy.com> <50c0125c$0$65293$c3e8da3$fb483528@news.astraweb.com> <ka1eno$3en$1@news.xmission.com> <slrnkca1qg.pk.BPdnicholsBP@Katana.d-and-d.com> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
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"DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> spake the secret code
<slrnkca1qg.pk.BPdnicholsBP@Katana.d-and-d.com> thusly:
>On 2012-12-09, Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:
>> Jason <system@openvms.org> spake the secret code
>><50c0125c$0$65293$c3e8da3$fb483528@news.astraweb.com> thusly:
>>
>>>> You need a CD-R drive that supports 512 byte blocks. Without that, you
>>>> won't be able to see anything of the structure inside the disc, even if
>>>> it's a linux box.
>>>
>>>No true, you can dump the disc contents to a disk image, i.e.:
>>>
>>>dd if=/dev/cdrom of=diskfile.iso bs=512
>>
>> Have you actually done this?
>>
>> Perhaps the CD-ROM requirement was for using the disc with an actual
>> SGI system.
>
> Well ... for older Suns (I know -- wrong newsgroup collection --
>but it is my experience -- one SGI, lots of Suns :-) you needed one
>which could be switch set to 512 byte sectors as the default to *boot*
>from it [...]
Yeah, that sounds right. In order to bootstrap a raw system, you have
to boot sash/IRIX from the CD-ROM, or from the network.
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