making backups of IRIX media

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> joe lobocki wrote:
> 
>> hello,
>> I need help making backups of my valuable IRIX media. I have heard 
>> that you
>> can use CDRWIN, and i did, which made a decent backup, except I 
>> couldnt boot
>> from the copy, and CDRWIN wont work properly on my laptop. is there 
>> any good
>> windows based program that would copy and image my IRIX media and keep 
>> them
>> bootable? if none for windows, i do have ubuntu linux loaded, although 
>> not
>> compatible with my network devices so it is rarely used and cant download
>> things. thanks!!
>> -Joe
>>
>>  
>>
> The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat /dev/cdrom > 
> image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.

More like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=./image.iso" or similar.

Peace...  Sridhar