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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