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

[John Esak]

Ahh,  two good ideas. I'll do the nopix thing first I think... And then the
mkdev hd and restore of /etc/conf and /stand....  Good idea.

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:08 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: OT: SCO 5.7 installation CD, where do I break 
> out totheshell...??? Or does anyone have a BackupEDGE 
> recovery CD(SATAcontroller) ??
> 
> 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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