Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive
I have set up the kernel with the Xenix driver as a module and have loaded it. On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, L.U.S.T List wrote: -- List: Linux User Support Team List Sender: Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:15:00 +1000 -- Perhaps the kernel does not have Xenix drive fs support compiled in. Try recompiling the kernel with Xenix fs support. Brian Schramm wrote: I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that I can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data off the drive. But it does not work. I am just typing: insmod sysv mount -t sysv /dev/hdd4 /mnt This should work to my knowledge but it errors saying that it cannot read the superblock. I am using debian slink and redhat 5.2. I have access to a SCO machine but I would have to re-write a drive table on it and that might overwrite the data (according to their WEB site.). Please help. -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with mounting a Xenix drive
I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that I can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data off the drive. But it does not work. I am just typing: insmod sysv mount -t sysv /dev/hdd4 /mnt This should work to my knowledge but it errors saying that it cannot read the superblock. I am using debian slink and redhat 5.2. I have access to a SCO machine but I would have to re-write a drive table on it and that might overwrite the data (according to their WEB site.). Please help. -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive
On 25 Jul, Brian Schramm wrote: | I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that I | can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data off the | drive. But it does not work. I am just typing: | | insmod sysv | mount -t sysv /dev/hdd4 /mnt Are you sure you have support for sysv/xenix/coherent compiled as a module? It wouldn't be the default to have support for xenix, AFAIK. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive
Perhaps the kernel does not have Xenix drive fs support compiled in. Try recompiling the kernel with Xenix fs support. Brian Schramm wrote: I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that I can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data off the drive. But it does not work. I am just typing: insmod sysv mount -t sysv /dev/hdd4 /mnt This should work to my knowledge but it errors saying that it cannot read the superblock. I am using debian slink and redhat 5.2. I have access to a SCO machine but I would have to re-write a drive table on it and that might overwrite the data (according to their WEB site.). Please help. -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
