Upgrade/rebuild of root fs
James Powell
kernel. The system was installed as an enterprise edition but w/o IP
services. There is no full system backup that can be used to recover, so, I
plan to either reinstall the root fs or rebuild from scratch and restore
user fs. The online docs say I can do this but doesn't address the license
issues. I do not plan to change the fs layout on the existing drive, so my
question is should I remove the license in either situation that being
rebuild root or reinstall? What must I do to register if necessary?
Anyone help will be appreciated.
James
Bela Lubkin
Kernel relink failures are usually fixable. Show us the output of:
cd /etc/conf/cf.d
./link_unix -n
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Tony Lawrence
> I have inherited a sco open server 5.05 system that will not relink the
> kernel. The system was installed as an enterprise edition but w/o IP
> services. There is no full system backup that can be used to recover, so, I
> plan to either reinstall the root fs or rebuild from scratch and restore
> user fs.
It's very unlikely that there is a /usr filesystem if that's even what
you meant.
>The online docs say I can do this but doesn't address the license
> issues.
Not sure what you are reading but I bet you are thinking that you have /
and /usr filesystems and that you could reinstall without touching /usr.
That's NOT going to happen. Normal SCO installs would never have /usr
as a separate fs and in fact you have to work pretty hard to make that
happpen at all.
> I do not plan to change the fs layout on the existing drive, so my
> question is should I remove the license in either situation that being
> rebuild root or reinstall? What must I do to register if necessary?
As Bela said, you probably don't need to do this at all.. see for
example http://www.pcunix.com/Unixart/linkfail.html
But if you did, licensing has nothing to do with it and registration is
a completely optional step that has nothing to do with operability.
You might want to look at http://aplawrence.com/newtosco.html
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Stephen M. Dunn
$I have inherited a sco open server 5.05 system that will not relink the
$kernel. The system was installed as an enterprise edition but w/o IP
$services. There is no full system backup that can be used to recover, so, I
$plan to either reinstall the root fs or rebuild from scratch and restore
$user fs.
Keep in mind that, even if you have your users' files in a separate
filesystem (/u by default), there's a whole bunch of stuff in the
root filesystem that you'd want to save, too - such as user accounts
(you can save these using ap(ADM)) and the contents of a whole bunch
of config files. JP Radley has/had a script on his site (jpr.com)
to automate the saving of many common config files; you might want to
look at that before proceeding.
$ The online docs say I can do this but doesn't address the license
$issues. I do not plan to change the fs layout on the existing drive, so my
$question is should I remove the license in either situation that being
$rebuild root or reinstall? What must I do to register if necessary?
You don't need to remove the license. When you reinstall the OS
(I'd just reinstall it in the root filesystem and preserve the other
filesystem(s) unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, but
either of the options you presented constitute a reinstallation),
you will be prompted to enter the license information.
Registration is quite simple - once you have the system up and
running again, you use the online registration link on www.sco.com
and enter your license number (from the piece of paper that came
with your copy of Unix) and SCO system ID (which you get from
License Manager _after_ you've installed the system - this ID
will change when you reinstall). If this copy of Unix has ever
been registered before, it will tell you so and ask why you are
registering it again; one of the options is something like
"Reinstallation on the same machine" so you pick that and it
spits out your registration key, which you then enter into License
Manager. All done.
Technically, registration is optional; the OS will continue to
function properly without it. However, if you don't register it,
annoying nag messages will show up on the console, and after a
while they'll also show up on users' screens when they log in,
so you'd generally want to register your software.
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