From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 15:14:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DACA16A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C7043D2D for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:14:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from outgoing.verizon.net ([192.168.1.2]) by out014.verizon.net ESMTP <20041026151450.CYXZ25088.out014.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:14:50 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.12 (webedge20-101-197-20030912) From: To: "Matt Emmerton" , "John Von Essen" , "Doug Russell" Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:14:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [192.168.1.2] at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:14:50 -0500 Message-Id: <20041026151450.CYXZ25088.out014.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: hacking SCO.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:14:51 -0000 > > This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from > > data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data > > off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem, > > right? > > This should work. If you run into any issues they will be incompatibilities > between SCO's cpio and the GNU cpio that FreeBSD uses. Sometimes you have to not use the option -c on the GNU cpio when extracting an archive created on SysV (somehow GNU cpio has a different idea about the -c format but if left out, it will figure it out well automatically). > > And the followup, can FreeBSD run SCO binaries (SCO Unix 5.0.1)? I am > > going to try and convert these people from their SCO box over to a > > FreeBSD system. Just want to make sure the data will come off the tape. > > Yes, but support is really limited. You need to copy a bunch of core > libraries onto the FreeBSD machine from the SCO machine to make things work. > (We just emulate the syscall interface -- you need libc and friends from > SCO.) And if you want to stay out of lawsuits, you will also need a separate license from SCO for these libraries (something like $700). It's kind of stupid but the SCO lawyers believe that if you've bought these libraries as a part of OpenServer, you can't run them on any other OS. The product is called something like SVLL which stands for System V Libraries for Linux. -SB not working for SCO any more