hacking SCO....

From: John Von Essen (john_at_essenz.com)
Date: 09/27/04

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:52:44 -0400

    Unfortunately, I have inherited a Intel P200 with SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
    with a 4Gb SCSI drive.

    I have to get the machine back up and running. Here is my dilemma and
    progress:

    I have a cpio archive on DDS-2 tape that is valid. I have been able to
    extract files onto a test disk with FreeBSD.

    The current 4Gb SCSI disk has a hardware problem. Not sure of where,
    but roughly 120Mb into the desk it starts making noise of fails.

    I have a new replacement 4Gb disk. With a FreeBSD boot CD I did a dd
    and was able to get the new disk setup with all of the old disks
    partition maps, boot data, etc.,. The new disk actually boots into SCO
    but fails because it only has 100Mb or so of data.

    The problem is I do not have any SCI media. According to docs, if I had
    a boot floppy or emergency repair disk, I could boot with that, then
    mount the partition and cpio extract the data.

    I tried doing this with a freebsd boot cd, but could mount the SCO
    filesystem. In fdisk, it comes up as type 99, and I know the SCO is
    htfs. Does freebsd support any of this?

    Any ideas on how I should go about this. All I need to do is get that
    data from the tape onto the disk and I should good to go.

    SCO is of no help, they cant provide replacement boot floppy, only sell
    me complete distribution version 5.0.7 for $100.

    Thanks
    john

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