Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO filesystem support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013010052.9609F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971009081744.12581@socrates.i-pi.com>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Kenneth Ingham wrote: > I have an old SCO machine at a client who is too cheap to upgrade the > OS. They are out of disk space, and the 1990 vintage OS doesn't support > more than two IDE drives. They have a 3rd disk, but can't use it. > > I was wondering about installing FreeBSD for them. However, things > would go much faster if I didn't have to back up and fully restore the > SCO stuff (i.e. install on the new disk, and simply mount the old ones). > > I checked the manual and saw nothing that looked promising. But in case > I missed anything, does FreeBSD support SCO's EAFS? Not that I know of, but there is vmount which may be able to understand it. See http://digo.inf.elte.hu/~szoli/ You could also NFS mount the disk, if your SCO box can understand that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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