DD Cloning of SCO laptop - successful but problems

[avisitor]

Greetings all !

I have just cloned a Toshiba Tecra laptop
running SCO Open Server 4.0.5 (and Win 95)
using the DD command in a Linux forensics distribution.
NB ! we have SCO licenses for two (and more)
machines but chose to clone since the SCO/Win95
coniguration & tools are very special and complex to
install from scratch.

The two laptops were the exact same
model, same harddisks, network card etc
and the cloning was successful.
SCO runs fine and so does Win95.

This laptop is special as it is used to
run different tasks on ticket vending machines.

We then tested both laptops on a routine
job in a ticket vending machine and the original
machine did the task as it should (installation
of the ticketing machine), but the
cloned machine failed.

I have had a look through both machines
and have found the following differences :

The cloned machine has a defect CD rom
and the battery lamp is yellow.
This is also reflected during boot
as the CD rom is not mounted on the cloned machine.
(CD ROM is not used for the task against
the ticketing machine)

I also checked Process Manager and the
original machine has 46 procs while
the cloned machine has 42.

The missing processes on the cloned machine were :

initd
routed
snmpd
strerr

Also the PID's are different on the two
machines but this should be no problem.

During the task we tested with the laptop
connected to the ticketing machine.
The ticketing machine is booted via a floppy
while SCO is running,
the ticketing machine SW then should
fetch data from the SCO laptop but this seemed to fail.
So a missing service might be the cause.

Thw network lamp is green and SCO does
not give any network error during boot,
I did also try to swap network cards.

If anyone have any comments on the missing Procs
on the cloned machine or any tips on where
to check & compare the two laptops this would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks alot !

kind regards,

M~

 

[avisitor]

hi all.

I have tried to swap harddisks on the two SCO laptops
and this did not solve the problem, so it seems this might
not be hardware related.

The missing processes on the cloned
machine might be related to the problem :

inetd
routed
snmpd
strerr

The ticketing machine is running a boot floppy and
is supposed to fetch data of the cloned SCO laptop,
maybe some of these processes are needed for this.

Any help on how to start these manually and
perhaps why they are not started would be
greatly appreciated !

cheers,

M~

 

[stanhubble]

Is your network live on the laptop?
how does the ticket machine access the sco system?
inetd is needed to start a number of daemons (see /etc/inetd.conf)

routed and snmpd should not be needed in most situations.

strerr is the streams error logging daemon and should stop things from running.

The common thing in all of these is that they are started from /etc/tcp so your network configuration is the place to start looking for problems.

 

[PHV]

Just a thought: the cloned laptop is not on the same lan at the same time as the original one ?
If yes you have arp issues with two identical IP addresses.

Hope This Help, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884

 

[stanhubble]

typo:

strerr is the streams error logging daemon and should not stop things from running.