Linux / Sco Stuff.

Leo Mauler webgiant at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 13 06:58:59 CST 2006


And if all else fails, set things up and leave it
alone for the weekend on a null modem cable...

--- Zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> No network option???  What kind of server has 
> no network connection?  Even an old BBS would 
> have dial in capabilities.
> 
> Stick an Ethernet card in it and use FTP.  If 
> there is only 328mb total, the usable data can't 
> take very long to transfer.
> 
> RtX wrote:
> 
> > I have a client that has a very old 486 server
> > running SCO UNIX 3.2.  My job is to get the 
> > data off of this machine and get it on to a 
> > Linux machine. The problem here is that the 
> > 486 is ISA bus only. It does not have an IDE 
> > bus, main system HDD is SCSI (328MB).  No 
> > network option, tape backup drive does not 
> > work either. I want to add a second SCSI
> > disk to the system formatted in DOS FAT16, 
> > copy the data over to this drive, and then 
> > copy the data back on to the new Linux server.
> > I am having no joy getting this SCO 3.2 system 
> > to mount the drive. I don't know how. I mean I 
> > know how to mount drives in Linux and AIX but I
> > fail to get this done in SCO. Could anyone 
> > please advise me on the steps needed to get 
> > this drive mounted in SCO?

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