[rescue] SGI Indy revival

[Steve Hatle]

I wouldn’t use initiator mode for installs, but figured it would get you the backup you needed. 

Glad to hear it worked out

Steve

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> On Mar 27, 2026, at 9:11 PM, Joshua Boyd via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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