I've gotten some of the essentials off the drive, however, woudl still like
ot mount the filesystem. I've gotten the drive copied into a 120MB Image
file with dd, but can't mount the actual drive. The filesystem is S51K and
need to locate at least read-only support (read-write would be very nice)
for this drive. I'm currently trying to mount as either hte drive or as
mount -o loop (both give me the same errors).
I was able to get the software to run under linux with the iBCS modules. I
have to locate and copy in several files that the software is looking for
(it's own versions of TERMCAP (under different filenames), etc).
-=>Jim Roland
"Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower."
--Anonymous
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:06:24 +0200
> From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
> To: jim@roland.net
> Subject: Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem
>
>
> >I wouldn't know where to begin. Remember, this is a 100MB drive, with
> >about 20 Megs free and not only is a VERY partial OS installed, but
> >application software as well. I'm only interested in saving the
> >application software.
>
> Consider creating tar archives of less then 20M at a time. Even old
> unix had
> ways of moving data across a serial port. Check if the box has one
> of PPP, SLIP, or UUCP. At least UUCP is likely on an old box, and I
> believe
> you can find UUCP for linux as well. Set it up and do serial transfer.
> don't worry too much if documentation is scarce, the linux side doc's
> will probably be useful.
>
> If you don't have ANY such software, see if logging in through a serial
> port
> is possible. It usually is. Then connect a serial port to the linux
> machine instead
> of a terminal. Create a program on the linux side that
> opens the port and sends username & password for logging in. It should
> then
> send the command "cat filename" and log the result to a file. This file
> will be a copy of the file on the other machine.
>
> Incidentally, what do you want to do with the old software? Can you
> even get it
> to run on linux?
>
> Helge Hafting
>
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