Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:21:07 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: DSA - JCR <juancr@dsa.es> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SCO UNIX Message-ID: <20041221192107.GB3607@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <2902.217.114.136.133.1103623589.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> References: <2902.217.114.136.133.1103623589.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:06:29AM -0000, DSA - JCR wrote: > Hi all : >=20 > I have a system (goverment type one) running SCO UNIX on an old system > without RAID and so, and I would like to port it to FreeBSD 5.3, in order > to take all its advantages. >=20 > My question are: > - Is FreeBSD 5.3 well tested in order to emulate SCO UNIX? Not really. I think I saw a post from someone about it fairly recently, but it's certaintly not well tested. > - This system uses a database from Progress Software Corp. v. 8.3, has > anyone used/ported it under FreeBSD ? it is safe? I have no idea. > - If I port to FreeBSD, the tree structure is the same than SCO? may I > have problems or can I solve them? The directory struct is probably fairly different since SCO is a SysV derivative and we're obvioulys BSD based. Is there some particular reason you need to migrate? If the existing system works and the hardware is in decent shape, I'd be strong tempted to leave it alone. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByHeiXY6L6fI4GtQRAqNtAJ4/asJAcKlriSKVVY7uEyFuZbX2QgCgwOy8 czgSSR7qYKBVSV9X1b2hu6U= =sKXF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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