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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.191.160.4!van-bc!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: bill@MCS.COM (Bill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to mount SCO hard drives? Date: 9 Jan 1997 09:39:42 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5b33fu$aft$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> References: <5b0mvs$ng2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> <01bbfe0a$17e91560$f4306dc2@beheerder> NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33883 "Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> writes: >Bill <bill@MCS.COM> wrote in article <5b0mvs$ng2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>... >> Recently someone asked me to get some data of some old SCO harddrives. I >> tried to see if freebsd could mount them but it couldn't. I had every >> filesystem compiled into the kernel so I guess they use one that isn't >> supported directly by freebsd. I know the drives work. Is there any way >> to read them? >> >Using NFS works fine, or do you only have the drives and not a SCO machine? I only have the drives. It will boot up SCO but it goes directly into a menu that we can't break out of to get to a shell and noone can remember the root password. It's a really old machine. Bill