Re: SCO 3.2 Back to the Future

From: Ian Wilson (scobloke2_at_infotop.co.uk)
Date: 02/25/05

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    Diederik wrote:
    > 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.

    I believe so, though I've not done it. Obviously you need a lot of free
    space in one partition and may have to work around filesize limits.

    > 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've duplicated OSR5 hard disks (of identical size & geometry) by
    booting a Linux CD and using DD. The duplicated hard disks are bootable
    provided you swap the SCSI IDs or IDE cables so that the logical bus
    location of the copied disk is the same as the old. See previous
    discussions in C.U.S.M.

    > 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 ?

    There were a lot of successive variants of that card, I recall that to
    switch from BNC to TP or AUI (where present) I had to use the 3com boot
    floppy supplied with the card and run the DOS setup/diagnostic tools.
    ISTR you can download this from 3com's website.

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