[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
New Kensington, PA


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