[rescue] SGI Indy revival

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sat Mar 28 02:09:56 UTC 2026


On 3/22/26 10:15 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue wrote:
> Can you just dd the image over the network after booting into single
> user mode?  It will create an image the size of the disk, which you
> could compress later.  If you can compile GNU ddrescue, it has some
> smart options that might help you as well.

I went with the BlueSCSI Initiator mode suggestion, but I don't really 
want to use that for installs in the future, so I should look at one of 
the pre-made container/VM images for netbooting SGIs to ease 
installs/rescues.



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