SCO 3.2 Back to the Future

From: Diederik (ddegroot_at_semecs.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 03:05:59 -0800

Hi Guys,

We are still running SCO 3.2 on an old Pentium I machine in a
production environment. This production line needs to be moved and i
would like to have some backups.
1. a full bootable backup of the OS including Everything (Or boot
floppies to restore full backup)
2. A new copy of the installation Tape (Old tape and floppies are
available)

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this.
Is it possible to use DD to copy a tape to harddisk and Put this copy
on another Tape.

Is it possible to add a new scsi harddisk and mount it under the root
filesystem to make a full copy including making it bootable ?

I tried getting this machine on the network to make some backups. The
network cards were already installed and configured (3Com Etherlink III
combo). Only had to change the Ip-Address. I used netconfig to set the
correct ip-address and rebooted. I wasn't able to ping anything on the
network however. I guess the card are fixed on using the BNC connector,
does anyone know how to switch to UTP ?

Any suggestions ?

Regards,

Diederik de Groot
ddegroot at semecs.com

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