[ale] SCO Open Server 5 boot root floppies?

[Chris Fowler]

In my attic I believe I have a bunch of OS5 related install media

I have 1/4" cartridge
I have DDSII 4GB tape
I have CDROM.

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:24 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Does anyone happen to still have a SCO system with Open Server 5 on it
> that would be willing to create boot/root floppies I could borrow?
> 
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> 
> We have a need to try to explore a SCO server we may be inheriting and
> the CD drive was kaput so my Linux and Backtrack CDs weren’t of much
> help.  
> 
>  
> 
> From boot messages it appears the server has DPT SCSI and VisionFS
> (which I’m assuming is the filesystem type but may be wrong). 
> 
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> I’m going to investigate Linux on floppy (unfortunately I didn’t have
> one with me when I examined it) but am not sure it would have a driver
> for the DPT SCSI or would recognize the filesystem.
> 
>  
> 
> Also since I need to be able to boot from these to try to mount the
> filesystems I’d need to know the root password for the floppies so of
> course you’d need to make it a temporary password before creating the
> floppies.
> 
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> 
> Alternatively if anyone KNOWS (not guesses) another way to hack root
> on SCO I’d appreciate hearing about it.   From what I can find on line
> the only sure way to do it is with boot/root floppies.
> 
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> TIA
> 
> 
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