[Tfug] Mounting a SCO partition on Linux

[JD Rogers]

The total ram might limit things a tad, but I often boot Ubuntu and then
with a network connection, you can "aptitude install" any packages you need
to do something. As long as it has enough ram to install to the ramdisk, it
should work. The FS support is built into the kernel though, so I would
imagine most everything would just be in modules that you could load in the
default CD.

Another option if the system supports booting from a USB disk is to use the
boot disk creator in UBUNTU to make a bootable USB flashkey. I've been a
huge fan of that lately over burning CDs and then misplacing them. There's
even an option to use extra space on the disk to store data, but I don't
know if you can 'install' programs with that option, or just save config and
files.

JDR


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Phil Simpson <pgsimpso at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to rescue some data from an old SCO box.  I'm not really sure
> what version of SCO it's running or the exact file system type because I
> can't get it to boot.  I am guessing the file system is either HTFS or
> System V/Xenix/Coherent.  Does anyone know of a live CD that has support for
> a lot of file systems?  Has anyone done this sort of thing before?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil Simpson
> Systems Administrator
> 623.252.2547
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