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

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>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... 

One possibility would be to boot off a 5.0.6 or earlier
installation CD, drop to the shell, then manually edit the
/etc/shadow file removing the password for root.

Once at the shell, you could probably use the chroot command to
change the password with the normal passwd command:

mount # see where the hard drive is mounted
chroot /mnt/point /bin/sh
passwd root
exit
...

I don't know if the current Knoppix LiveCD groks SCO file
systems.  I was very surprised last week when I found it would
mount a USB drive that was formatted with the native Apple OS X
file system, read-only, but mounted.

Another option might be to put the hard drive in another SCO
system, mount it, then do whatever is necessary (chroot is good)
to get things fixed again.

Finally, using VMware or similar virtual software, create a hard
drive volume, then use ``dd'' to copy the existing hard drive to
that partition.

Bill
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