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

[John Esak]

Thanks for all the options Bill,
I can do the chroot thing or just edit shadow and run passwdupd (if that
even applies. I can copy a known password to root... And I do know a cuser
password...  But I can't do anything until I get to a root shell on
something to which I can mount the drive.  I don't want to create another
hard drive on my other Sco system and mount this one. Why? Because it is
ugly to impossible to remove it once it's been made.  That has been an
annoying thing about SCO since I can remember.

John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:34 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: OT: SCO 5.7 installation CD, where do I break 
> out to theshell...??? Or does anyone have a BackupEDGE 
> recovery CD (SATAcontroller) ??
> 
> 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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