Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:20:02 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, y-carden@uniandes.edu.co Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Floppies for SCO Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B31@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Sxren Schmidt [SMTP:sos@FreeBSD.ORG] > > You cannot mount a SCO filesys floppy on FreeBSD. > However IIRC the install disks for custom is in tar format, so you > can read that on freebsd like: tar xvf /dev/rfd0 . > Now SCO's tar has the ability to compress individual files in a tar > archive, so you will have to uncompress each of them by hand if > thats the case. > That may be impossible because SCO has added a new incompatible compression mode to compress and is using this mode in many cases (man pages, for example). You can not just take uncompress from SCO because it's in ELF format and AFAIK SCO compatibility does not support SCO ELF yet. > Then you are left with what should be processed by "custom" which > we dont have, but if its not a too complex application you > should be able to figure out what to do. > There are files describing the relations of files to packages, their ownership and protection. They can be rather easily parsed (or in some cases can be just ignored). > The easiest way though is to install it on a SCO system and tar > up the installed package and move that to FreeBSD.... > And a personal SCO license to do this can be obtained for free (and $17 plus delivery for media if you don't have it yet). -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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