[rescue] SGI Indy revival
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Mar 28 03:18:13 UTC 2026
On 3/27/26 22:09, Joshua Boyd 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.
Look for the one called "love". It is, by a huge margin, the best
I've used. It is a single binary that does *everything*, and a config
file that points to disk images.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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