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? -- RtX... Ty Unes - Overland Park, Ks. riverty@gmail.com
You need to run mkdev hd and feed in the parameters for the drive, then will probably need to reboot and run it again to create the filesystem. If you've added this second drive to the same controller, the parameters should all be the same as the existing drive, except for the id= value. You can get the existing drive's parameters with the hwconfig command. Let me know if you need help with this. On 12/7/06, RtX <riverty@gmail.com> 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?
-- RtX...
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And if you really get stuck on commands and syntax, I'm fairly sure I've still got a set of SCO manuals in a box down in the basement... :p Jon. On 12/7/06, Monty J. Harder <mjharder@gmail.com> wrote:
You need to run mkdev hd and feed in the parameters for the drive, then will probably need to reboot and run it again to create the filesystem. If you've added this second drive to the same controller, the parameters should all be the same as the existing drive, except for the id= value. You can get the existing drive's parameters with the hwconfig command. Let me know if you need help with this.
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?
And if all else fails, set things up and leave it alone for the weekend on a null modem cable... --- Zscoundrel <zscoundrel@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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