Keypoint and Linux?

Monty J. Harder mjharder at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 22:06:02 CST 2006


A SCO partition is subdivided into 'divisions', each of which can hold a
filesystem.  It can be a real PITA to deal with that under any other OS.
Why don't you try creating a tarball of the files the existing system uses,
and put that on an ext3 or Reiser filesystem for your testing?

On 11/17/06, djgoku <djgoku at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/17/06, RtX <riverty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Admitted. ;-)
> >
> > Right now, I have used Ghost to dupe a copy for testing purposes. I
> > thought I would at least be able to mount the drive under Linux and
> > peruse the files however trying to mount a type 63 SCO UNIX (sysv)
> > filesystem does not work. I'm not sure if it's incompatible with Linux
> > or if it's a bum dupe. I read somewhere that I would have better luck
> > mounting the drive under one of the BSD's. ?!?!?!
>
> No idea on if BSDs have support for this. I searched on the OpenBSD
> mailing list and didn't find any information about mounting SCO drives
> in OpenBSD. Maybe you know the partition type name and can find it in
> the man page for mount.
>
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
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