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Same. I used it periodically to recover data from expired hardware. Kids today don't have any idea that you couldn't just take a drive from an installed sco sys
by Brian_K_White 4y ago
Same. I used it periodically to recover data from expired hardware. Kids today don't have any idea that you couldn't just take a drive from an installed sco system and just boot it up on any other motherboard and hard drive controller. (well, there are wizard incantations that you won't know and won't be able to figure out in time) So couldn't boot the old system on the old dead hardware or on new hardware, couldn't buy a new copy of the old hardware... but you could mount the disk and get everything that matters.
A fuse implementation would be good enough today though. You're not doing actual production work on htfs today no matter how special the circumstances.
...and did anyone ever automate parsing the divvy partition table?
- kjs3 4y agoYou're not doing actual production work on htfs today no matter how special the circumstances. Someone is, apparently. Some shop called Xinuos apparently bought part of the corpse (the not lawsuit obsessed, not fraud committing part, presumably) and is still selling SCO OpenServer and Unixware. That's some serious dead-ender computing. But hey...people still run OS/2 in production. Divvy...haven't thought about that in not long enough.
- rbanffy 4y agoImagine telling them we could boot the machine from a SCSI tape…
- kjs3 4y agoOr manually repair the borked inode table with adb/fsdb.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoYou have to do it manually. You don't dare let fsck -y do it. I confess I have never productively used either but have destructively used fsck.