OT: SCO 5.7 installation CD, where do I break out to theshell...??? Or does anyone have a BackupEDGE recovery CD (SATAcontroller) ??

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>Thanks for all the options Bill,
>I can do the chroot thing or just edit shadow and run passwdupd (if that
>even applies. I can copy a known password to root... And I do know a cuser
>password...  But I can't do anything until I get to a root shell on
>something to which I can mount the drive.  I don't want to create another
>hard drive on my other Sco system and mount this one. Why? Because it is
>ugly to impossible to remove it once it's been made.  That has been an
>annoying thing about SCO since I can remember.

Yeah, SCO's ``mkdev hd'' and general kernel configuration can be
pretty nasty although one could probably do this more-or-less
safely to restore by first backing up the /etc/cf* and /stand
directories before making the change, then restoring them from
the backup when done.

I would try booting from a Knoppix Linux LiveCD to see if it
groks the SCO file system in read/write mode.  I don't have a SCO
box handy to try this on to see (although I could probably play
on a VMware SCO VM instance).

Bill
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