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Mike probably has gotten farther with virtualization of SCO than I have. <BR>
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First off, if you didn't have the very lastest final version of SCO, it didn't have hardware support for so much of what we now take for granted. IDE, USB. And does anyone remember how painful it was to recompile the kernel to add support for additional drivers? I recall trying to install on maybe 5.0.4 and it was a flop. <BR>
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Before you go down that road of trying to virtualize, I'd ask precisely WHY they cannot migrate to Linux. I have had some good results migrating Business Basic applications and DBs intact to Linux systems from SCO. It is a bit easier to convince the client to make this jump when their SCO hardware fries and all they have is a backup tape. Are they truly on some dead-end language that cannot migrate? <BR>
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Regarding transfer, I hate to give away my age, but what about hanging any desktop on a serial port and using Kermit? Or UUCP? Yes, it will take a while to transfer at 38400, but what's time to a pig? <BR>
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Neal<BR>
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On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 20:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
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On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 19:17 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 03:21 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> > I don't think there is enough free disk space on the original system to make that backup
> I don't have any SCO experience, but can you attach (and use) a USB
> harddrive?
Oh, I remember that too. Yes and no.
Yes, you can (maybe) after getting the appropriate drivers enabled and
recompile the kernel with that. I think I remember doing that. Painful
experience. I think I remember I gave up on the effort but that was a
long time ago.
No, in that SCO is not going to understand any ext* file system, Linux
is not (I don't think) understand that antiquated sv5* file system, and
VFAT, NTFS, or other lowest common denominator isn't going to cut it
because of file attributes (which is why I probably gave up).
You could do a tar backup to it (again - you gotta enable those drivers
and rebuild the kernel) on a VFAT file system (subject to file length
limits on VFAT) and then extract them. I don't think I ever tried using
NTFS with SCO.
Neil Rhodes might have better advice. He's also done work on SCO. I
put this behind me over a decade ago.
> Jim
Regards,
Mike
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