On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:35:18PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
The server is running c-sytems software on a sco operating system. They tell us we can't pull the hard drive and move it to another pc - something about a bug causing it to lose data.
Pull out the drives, mirror them and then put them back, put the mirroed drives in a spare desktop pc and hay presto?
That's not going to work with a SCO kernel unless the new PC is identical from a hardware standpoint; SCO kernels are monolithic and have device drivers compiled and linked into the kernel.
If you have install media you can likely install SCO on a different PC, and then copy the rest of the old system over, not touching any of the kernel bits when you do so. This will likely have a fair chance of success.
John