Have you tried cdrdao to do cd copy?
--- Robert Woten
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> Dear List,
>
> My associate and I have managed to create no less than a dozen new
> coasters for our cafeteria trying to make a backup copy of the
> Solaris 8
> Installation (Boot) CDROMs.
>
> Clearly, it should not be so keenly difficult to make a simple CD
> copy.
>
> The bulk of our shiny new coasters were the result of following the
> "ftp.fokus.gmd.de:pub/unix/cdrecord/README.sparcboot" instructions
> and then using `cdrecord`
>
> However, for the following bit:
>
> mkisofs -R -sparc-boot sun4,sun4c,sun4m,sun4d,sun4e -o boot.img
> /mnt/install
>
> we had to presume that "/mnt/install" was the boot disk
> /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s1
> partition mounted as /mnt/install. Anything else resulted in an
> error
> with the "mkisofs" command.
>
> Also, unless we used the "fstyp -v" suggestion, the resulting
> output of
> "mkisofs" was always about 900 megabytes necessitating the
>
> dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s[1-5] of=sun4[cmde] bs=1k count=[size]
>
> command for each partition.
>
> For the cdrecord aspect, we used:
>
> cdrecord -data -v -dev=6,0 speed=[1246] boot.img
> cdrecord -isofs -data -v -dev=6,0 speed=[1246] boot.img
> (and other combinations that ended up with more immediate disaster)
>
> Every single burn resulted in "Boot file not found" or "File loaded
> does not appear to be executable" or other some such nonsense.
>
> With such seemingly advanced tools as "cdrecord" and "mkisofs", one
> could
> easily imagine that copying a damned Solaris 8 boot CDROM would be
> a
> simple and easy task. However, we not only found out the exact
> opposite,
> but also that no one else seems to have actually done it
> successfully
> either (at least according to dejanews and other search engines).
> The
> closest we've ever heard of such a copy actually working were
> completely
> ambiguous "teasers" (conclusively). Such as the infamous one liner
> from
> Casper Dik "Use dd and cdrecord"
>
> Thus I seek help from the list to please, please prove us both the
> fools we have been made by this mess.
>
> I'll summarize, if there's interest.
>
> Bob Woten
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>
>
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