> > This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from > > data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data > > off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem, > > right? > > This should work. If you run into any issues they will be incompatibilities > between SCO's cpio and the GNU cpio that FreeBSD uses.
Sometimes you have to not use the option -c on the GNU cpio when extracting an archive created on SysV (somehow GNU cpio has a different idea about the -c format but if left out, it will figure it out well automatically). > > And the followup, can FreeBSD run SCO binaries (SCO Unix 5.0.1)? I am > > going to try and convert these people from their SCO box over to a > > FreeBSD system. Just want to make sure the data will come off the tape. > > Yes, but support is really limited. You need to copy a bunch of core > libraries onto the FreeBSD machine from the SCO machine to make things work. > (We just emulate the syscall interface -- you need libc and friends from > SCO.) And if you want to stay out of lawsuits, you will also need a separate license from SCO for these libraries (something like $700). It's kind of stupid but the SCO lawyers believe that if you've bought these libraries as a part of OpenServer, you can't run them on any other OS. The product is called something like SVLL which stands for System V Libraries for Linux. -SB not working for SCO any more _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
