OT (sortof): Install HD on SCO Unix

Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) rtr at rsquared.com
Wed May 19 06:41:33 PDT 2004


This is somewhat off topic but it does have a filepro twist.  I just had a 
company call me up to setup a new network at their location.  They were 
running SCO Unix using filepro for the database.  While I was setting up 
the Windows 2003 Server their SCO box (about 10 years old) bit the 
dust.  It appears to be a motherboard, so for all practical purposes the 
system is dead and not worth recovering.  What I would like to do is take 
their hard drive from their system and install it on one of my SCO systems, 
keeping their filesystems in tact so I can retrieve the filepro files.  My 
systems are OSR 5 (3.2v5.0.0 and 3.2v5.0.6), I'm not sure exactly which 
version of SCO they were running so I don't know the type of filesystem on 
their hard drive.

Question: How do I install the hard drive on my system without losing their 
data.  I've installed hard drives before but they were always new hard 
drives where I created new filesystems, in this instance I want to create 
the filesystem but keeping the existing data.  Is it as simple as saying no 
to 'New FS' in  divvy.

Any help appreciated.
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