Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem

From: Jim Roland (jim@roland.net)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 21:28:48 EST


Unfortunately, the network card is hosed. It's a "noname", which the mfg
can be identified by the chipsets, which are nearly all Western Digital
chips (yes, WD).

-=>Jim Roland
 
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:46:25 -0800
> From: A Guy Called Tyketto <tyketto@wizard.com>
> To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net>
> Subject: Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:31:18PM -0600, Jim Roland wrote:
> > Okay. I've decided that my journey down memory lane will not be alone.
> >
> > I have been the unfortunate soul to inherit an old Compaq 386 (100MB HD)
> > with Interactive Systems' Interactive UNIX on it. It's one of the true
> > Unixes complete with names stamped on it like Microsoft, AT&T, and
> > Interactive Systems on it. Don't get me wrong, in it's day (1986) it was
> > great.
> >
> > However, I am needing to mount the drive under Linux. I've searched for
> > over 7-8 hours all over the net, kernel documentation, etc, but am unable
> > to get the drive to mount.
> >
> > I've tried enabling all forms of UFS and SYSV file systems, with the
> > appropriate -o ufstype=(whatever) options to mount, and I still get a bad
> > superblock type error message.
> >
> > The old host OS for the drive is System V 3.2/3 (which is release 3, I
> > believe).
>
> How about this.. If the kernel for the OS has any networking drivers
> or so compiled into it, could you not drop in an ISA based NIC, and mount it
> NFS, to get what you're looking for? It's a long shot, but it might work. I'm
> pretty sure a Cabletron or 3com card could be added without any problems. Try
> that, and see what you can see.
>
> BL.
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