update on the SCO mounting hd thing...

[John Esak]

Oops! I was wrong.  I had tried the advice of someone in the thread... I
forget who just now, but will look it up. He suggested typing "tools" at the
boot prompt. Which I did... This is what eventually brought me to the 3
piece menu with a drop to the shell on it. Pressing ENTER at boot did not.
However, when I did a 'dir" at the boot prompt, I did not see anything
called "tools", so maybe it's just typing *anything* there that causes
different than install behavior.

Anyway, thirty seconds to get to the shell then did:

Mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
Chroot /mnt /bin/sh
Passwd

Changed the root passwrod and all was exactly as Bill Campbell suggested it
would be.

Whew!

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:24 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: OT: update on the SCO mounting hd thing...
> 
> Well, I put a Sco 5.7 CD in the drive and an empty hard drive 
> on the SATA
> port.
> 
> It actually comes to a little menu that says:
> 
> 1) Start a shell on the ramdisk
> 2) shutdown
> 3) Begin the install
> 
> How cool is that. I thought I would have to remember where to 
> press F3 or
> whatever it used to be at some strategic point in the install 
> like on 5.6.
> 
> So, I"ve just hung my old drive on the SATA port and I'll try 
> it again, then
> mount the drive to hd0root and do the chroot thing. Don't see 
> why it won't
> work.
> 
> More to come.
> 
> John
> 
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