From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 19 18:44:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795A837B407 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 18:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.179.11]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020520014442.KRRV2077.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 19 May 2002 21:44:42 -0400 Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (xena.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.3]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4K0Uqb06007; Sun, 19 May 2002 20:30:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 20:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: "Karl M. Joch" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a SCO harddisk (locally secondary drive) under freebsd? In-Reply-To: <0f0f01c1ff81$ddb58750$01000001@ooe.kmjeuro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 May 2002, Karl M. Joch wrote: > Hi, > > i have to replace 6 sco boxes with freebsd. is it possible to mount the sco > harddrive under freebsd when it is locally built in the hardware as second > drive? i already got their software in the freebsd compatibility running. > but for moving the data and the kermit stuff i should get direct access to > the drive. the boxes are still in production so i have no chance to the it > at the moment. There was some talk about this a few months ago; check the list archives. The basic gist was that no, there wasn't a way, since the documents describing the SCO filesystems were never released to the public. However, there was some talk about Caldera (the proud owners of SCO) releasing said documents, so work could potentially start on this. There are some other approaches that may be more feasible for you: 1) back up the data onto tape and restore under FreeBSD 2) run the FreeBSD and SCO machines side-by-side and use FTP, NFS or SCO VisionFS/AFPS (they implement the SMB protocol) to copy the data over -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message