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Thanks Ken I convinced them taht it was hopeless any way. They have howerver requested that I hook up a secon printer and terminal. The system has a Digi board that was originally installed but I have no driver disk. I tried to set up a printer on the parrallel port but it say lpadmin was not...

Now I have been asigned another project. Just so you know these are retired systems for a couple of Auto Body shops her in town. A lawsuit has evolved about thing that were not done on some repairs. Insurance Company points finger at body shop vice versa. I have been asked to get the systems...

Thanks a lot everyone for your help. I finally got the system up. The problem was that the backup tape with the application was from an old 486 witha dead SCSI hard drive and a bad ISA controller. I had top change to a PCI controller the restore would clober my hardware files. After I got it up...

How would I backup the /dev/root system using the cpio command? Thanks Dennis

Okay Thanks but how do I get the files from the temp directory to the places that need to be for the program to work? Thanks for you help Dennis

I'm sorry but I evidently don't understand or am not making my sef clear. In order for the program to work Ihave to restore the entire tape some of the files evidently go in the root directory. Ther must be a file theat tell it what kind of hard dis controller I have. When I restoer the tape...

Is there any way to restore from a tape using the cpio command that does not overwrite files it seems that something on the tape overwrites my system files and when I reboot it tells me I have no disk controller. This tape was from a system with an old ISA disk controller. I had to change to a...

This is Open Server 3.2.4 Thanks Dennis

I still a little (actually a lot) confused. I don't have any manuals. Just some faded note to restore the system. It doesn't mention a as an option. What command should I tpye in to include -A. Also you mentioned the "dd" command I have no idea how to use it. Thanks for You help Dennis

This is what I amd using to restore cpio -ivdm -I /dev/rStp0 usr/arms/* I replace the cpio -ivt -I /dev/rStp0 to view the tape I see the following : /bin/file name ect... The tape has a copy of the root directory and if I restore it with out using the /usr/arms it write over my SCO files which...

I must be missing something. I srry if I'm being a best but I do't do much UNIX. Thanks Dennis

They Start with a Thanks Dennis

The fils are in a couple of directories. the will scrool across the screen but wil no0t restore. If I got to sysadmsh and try to restore it tells me that the tape is not cpio format how ever that it the process it was used to bak up. Dennis

I need to get an old SCO Open Server 3.2.4 system back up because of a clients legal matter. I have restored the system. I used cpio -ivudm -I /devrStp0 /usr/* to restore the application. I use the same thing to restore the data, the tape reads through but doesn't write aynthing to the hard...

I just used the defaults for the root partition, and I am using the Cpio command to restore.