From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 01:04:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28484 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA28479 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA10661; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kenneth Ingham cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO filesystem support In-Reply-To: <19971009081744.12581@socrates.i-pi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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