OT: SCO 5.7 installation CD, where do I break out to the shell...??? Or does anyone have a BackupEDGE recovery CD (SATA controller) ??

[John Esak]

On older versions of SCO 5.6 and below... There was a point during a FRESH
install that you could STOP the install and drop to the shell. I seem to
remember F3 or some key maybe BREAK... In any case, absolutely NOTHING would
have been scribbled on the hard drive at this point.  That is what I need to
do. If I can fined my BackupEDGE recovery CD, I won't need this trick.  I
can get to the sehll from that CD. But, I'm not having any luck finding
it... 

The problem is I've forgottne my root password... I turned the machine off
about 2 years ago, and now I have to turn it on again. I can mount the hard
drive and modify the password in a couple different ways... But I have to
get to a shell and be able to see the hard drive.  Under EDGE, it will see
it as /dev/rhd0root or something like that... I have the exact routine on
file, but haven't checked it yet.  I do have a SCO 5.7 Install disk right
here, and the license stuff... Which I think is needed up front on 5.7.
But, I certainly don't want to touch the hard drive at all with any
installation.  All I want to do is get to the drive, list out the filePro
license so I can sell it. I can't afford to just lose this drive with that
license... And the SCO license for that matter, and the FacetWin license.

Better yet... Does anyone out there have a BackupEDGE recovery CD made on a
machine that uses a SATA drive. Even a 5.6 CD would do it. I know I can get
to my drive through BackupEDGE, but I don't think I'm going to have luck
finding my CD's.

I've been thinking that I can get an unused SATA drive... And just install
SCO on it... And then install BackupEDGE and make a recovery CD... Then put
in my drive and do the password recovery.  God, what a hassle that would be.
I may have to do it... But if anyone has one that uses a SATA primary hard
drive, they could perhaps make an ISO image of it and drop it on my site.  I
would so much appreciate it.

Write me privately.

I know I"ve been pretty unclear about all this, but maybe someone out there
will understand.

John

P.S. An EDGE recovery CD with any other disk controller than SATA would be
no use to me...