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From: Dan Nelson <dan@dan.emsphone.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to mount SCO hard drives?
Date: 10 Jan 1997 00:17:05 GMT
Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc.
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Bill <bill@MCS.COM> wrote:
> "Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> writes:
> >Bill <bill@MCS.COM> wrote in article <5b0mvs$ng2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>...
> >> Recently someone asked me to get some data of some old SCO
> >> harddrives.  I tried to see if freebsd could mount them but it
> >> couldn't.  I had every filesystem compiled into the kernel so I
> >> guess they use one that isn't supported directly by freebsd.  I
> >> know the drives work.  Is there any way to read them?
> >> 
> >Using NFS works fine, or do you only have the drives and not a SCO
> >machine?
>
> I only have the drives.  It will boot up SCO but it goes directly
> into a menu that we can't break out of to get to a shell and noone
> can remember the root password.  It's a really old machine.

Just saying "SCO disk" doesn't mean much, as there are at least 4
incompatible filesystems that SCO unixes have used (XENIX, EAFS, DTFS,
HTFS). I had to do the same thing as you (client's computer died; they
brought us the disk and said "we need the files off this").  We happen
to run SCO on a few machines and the disk mounted as a XENIX fs;
extremely old fs, but it did mount.

I suggest you order the FreeSCO CD for $30 (or whatever) and use that. 
That way, you'll also have the SCO shlibs for binary emulation on
FreeBSD...

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com