Re: SCO 3.2 Back to the Future

From: Rainer Zocholl (UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-_at_zocki.toppoint.de)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: 26 Feb 2005 19:41:00 +0100

  (Diederik) 25.02.05 in /comp/unix/sco/misc:

>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.

Good Idea.

>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)

But are they still readable?

>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.

Yes, but you should do that not on the "living" system!
Boot a knoppix (don't hope that the old CD-ROM drive will be able to
read RW-Media and that the BIOS will boot from CD...)

>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 ?

Yes. Tony has a good desciption for that.

>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.

That might be caused by a wrong default gateway/routing entries.

>I guess the card are fixed on using the BNC
>connector,

If a "netstat -i" does not show any incoming traffic you ar right.

>does anyone know how to switch to UTP ?

Rainer

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