replicating a machine 2

[MrTom]

I have to replicate a machine that is running OpenServer 5.0.4. I need to replicate it but I know little about SCO and the filesystem of this machine is very screwed up to say the least. Also all the applications on it are custom and there is no documentation.
I have a backup of the whole filesystem and my idea is to just copy it to another machine. What disk format does SCO use? Is there a way I could mount this kind of filesystem under linux so I can copy the files across? If not I guess I'll have to dd the filesystem to another hdd.
If I get to this stage how would I install the boot loader.

Thanks.

 

[edfair]

If you know little about SCO, how can you say the filesystem is screwed up?
It is time for you to pay a professional to do the job.

I started with UNIX at about the same spot you are in now, and it took 5 weeks to get it right. And that was with an earlier simpler version.

Replication of the system isn't the problem. Overlaying of hardware related stuff onto a system with different hardware is the problem. Ed Fair
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[MrTom]

By screwed up i mean that there are a million different applications/scripts that some previous idiot put on there and none of it is documented. I would just start with a new install if it wasn't for this. It's not the OS files that bother me.

I just need to know what the filesytem format is called (htfs??), how to create the filesystem (eg. mke2fs) and what the bootloader is called.

Thanks.

 

[Wonboodoo]

I think he knows Unix but not SCO.

What do you plan on doing with this replicated machine? Is your goal to have a standby SCO box, run a separate SCO box, or access the disk contents from another OS (Linux)?

Your dd solution sounds like it might work OK. You sound like you are "dd"ing individual files. Would it not be better to "dd" the disk device file and then un"dd" it on a disk of the same type? That might mean the bootloader portion of the disk will be copied as well?

Do you not have a SCO installation CD?

 

[edfair]

try looking at the man page for divvy and then run it on the drive (look in /dev for /dev/hd*) to see what hard drive filesystems you have.

Documentation? You expect documentation? How naive.

Sorry, just a reaction from some of my problems.

mkdev hd to create the hd
mkdev hd again to make it usable
mkdev fs to mount the filesystem

boot is the loader , unix is the kernel, but it isn't as simple as that. You really need to create the filesystems with the install set since there are a couple of spots on the HD you won't have access to. Ed Fair
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