Hi ,
I can tell you that linux is able to mount SCO 3.2 floppy disks. The doc
says it can also use hard disk partitions but i have never tested it (i
will soon since i need it too). The problem that could rise here is that
SCO does not use standard partitionning scheme for theit hard drives: SCO
is able to sub-divide a "real" partition into several filesystems... and
i don't know if linux will manage to recognize anything with this !!
tell me how it goes if you complete the test before i do.
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: Manager [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 3:43 PM
To: Albi
Cc: Mike; Mike Barnes; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: can linux SEE SCO partitions?
hi Albert,
Thing is that I was thinking of a situation when I have data in a Sco
partition, can I bring that disk to a linux box connect it physically and
then mount it so that linux could see the files there in the HTFS ,
executing the binaries are different proposition and NFS mount is not in
question. So in that context I asked if Linux recognises HTFS file
systems. Please clarify...
Thanks Deep
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Albi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 06:30:25PM -0500, Manager wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to mount SCO filesys ( HTFS ) in linux ?
>
> ------------ quote from my (2.x) kernel-source-help:
> ---------------------------
> Linux Kernel v2.2.5 Configuration
>
> System V and Coherent filesystem support
> CONFIG_SYSV_FS:
>
> SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
> machines. Saying Y here would allow you to read to and write from
> their floppies and hard disk partitions.
>
> If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
> that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
> to run these binaries, you will want to install iBCS2 (Intel Binary
> Compatibility Standard is a kernel module which lets you run SCO,
> Xenix, Wyse, UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux
> and is often needed to run commercial software that's only available
> for those systems. It's available via FTP (user: anonymous) from
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA).
>
> If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
> network using NFS, you don't need the System V filesystem support
> (but you need NFS filesystem support obviously).
>
> Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
> good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
> (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
> tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
> nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
> the System V filesystem in Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt.
> Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 34 KB.
>
> ------------ end quote -------------------------
>
> so, that is yes! :)
>
> --
> greetings, Albert.
>
> Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question.
> NO (or Linux) is the answer.
> (Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown)
>
