From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 19:21:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914DD16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:21:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3EC43D5D for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:21:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBLJL71q005810; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:21:07 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id iBLJL7mB005809; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:21:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:21:07 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: DSA - JCR Message-ID: <20041221192107.GB3607@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <2902.217.114.136.133.1103623589.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2902.217.114.136.133.1103623589.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SCO UNIX X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:21:00 -0000 --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--