Chadley Wilson writes:

We had a sco server -- really very old +7 years or so. The main board is fried and we need to get the data off the hard drive. I have tried to boot it on oldish but working hard ware but it give a kernel panic, So I am trying to mount the drive under linux to see if I can copy the data off. This is prooving to be a task of considerable difficulty. It seems Suse 9.3 lacks support for umsdos or what fdisk reports to be a GNU HURD file system. Using yast to automount also doesn't work.

Has any one any ideas as to how to achieve this task?

Linux has no support for the SCO filesystem so you can't do it this way. Complicating the matter is the fact that SCO doesn't put a single filesystem in each fdisk partition. Within the partition are multiple divisions, each of which can be either a filesystem or swap area. You'll need to locate the appropriate SCO media and build a working SCO system on a new hard drive, then attempt to mount the filesystems of the old drive and recover its data. -Ti -- Ti Kan http://www.amb.org/ti Vorsprung durch Technik