making backups of IRIX media

[Andrew Warkentin]

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
>
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The easiest way to dump them to images would be to use "cat /dev/cdrom > 
image.iso" or similar in a shell under Linux.