Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


SCO

Recovering 5.0.7 from Bootable CD

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Operating Systems SCO Recovering 5.0.7 from Bootable CD
Prev   Next
# 6  
Old 03-28-2009
Okay fellas, it's been about 2 years now and for the life of me I can't recall how I restored the files...
I've got another computer that has a toasted hard drive and now I've got to rebuild it. I've got this same system, with the same bootable CD.

I created the filesystems and are now trying to mount them so that I can restore the rootsys.bak and standsys.bak files.

I've got the /mnt directory and I've mounted the hard the root to it using the command:
mount /dev/hd0root /mnt

I tried cpio and that didn't work. I don't have a restore file on the CD so I don't recall if I used restore to put the files on there.

Any ideas on what to do next?

There's data on some tapes that I need to restore for the client to get his 1st Quarter '09 reports out.
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

recovering a deleted directory

I accidentally deleted a very important directory today with this rm -r. What would be the recommended way to recover my directory? After a lot of googleing I have seen these choices. Could I get some recommendations please? Testdisk Photorec- Doesn't recover file name like I would like. ... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
10 Replies

2. SCO

Recovering OpenServer 5.0.6 onto different hardware

I'm sorting out the disaster recovery plan for a critical server. It's a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Openserver 5.0.6a. We have a disaster recovery agreement with HP and they have just confirmed that in the event of a total disaster such as the server being totally wiped out, they would NOT... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mmcardle
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

recovering cron job

I deleted one of the job from the cron tab. I want to get it back. How can i do this. pplease suggest me.. thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pranabrana
1 Replies

4. AIX

Recovering a failed system

Hi,My system is not booting and at the startup it is getting struck.In HMC error code is coming as 0000, I know the reason of failing.I have few queries on recovery, please answer:1. I have mksysb of the system from which I can restore the system but problem is my few application mount point was a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: aixpank
5 Replies

5. High Performance Computing

MPI, recovering node

Hi all, I'm writing an MPI application, in which I handle failures and recover them. In order to do that, in case of one node failure, I would like to remove that node from the MPI_COMM_WORLD group and continue with the remaining nodes. Does anybody know how I can do that? I'm using... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SaTYR
5 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help recovering a backed up file

Hello, By accident I erased a file at work and I need to restore it from a backup tape. My manager says I will have to use the mt command with the fsf option to look through the tape but I am confuzed. I did a restore -t to get a listing of the tape. This is taking a long time. If I sound... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mojoman
1 Replies

7. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Make non-bootable scsi drive, bootable

In our HP/Unix system, our master scsi drive was bootable and our mirrored drive was non-bootable. Are any of these alternatives possible: 1) Make the non-bootable scsi drive bootable? How? 2) Create a bootable scsi drive, then copy the mirrored data to the newly created scsi drive? I seek... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bfisk
1 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

recovering files removed with rm

Hello, I was reading the manual on rm and it states that when you use 'rm' the files are usual recoverable, how is this done? Does it assume that a backup system is in place? Cheers Jack (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jack1981
4 Replies

9. SCO

HELP! Recovering system from New Orleans!!

I am helping a company recover a system that is SCO OS 5.0.5 - they have their backup media, cd copies of SCO, but they do not have their license keys to install and SCO is being difficult in validating their license. Does anyone have an install license key for 5.0.5 that they would be willing... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ggraham
1 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Recovering lost files

I noticed this in a search for more security tools... It IS possible to "undelete" a file; I suppose recover would be a better term for it. I suppose we've all made the boo-boo (that we all hopefully learned from) of deleting a file, and finding that you do not have a backup. I wouldn't... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: LivinFree
1 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question

LEARN ABOUT OSF1

pmerge

pmerge(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 pmerge(8)

NAME

       pmerge - Builds a network bootable kernel.

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sys/bin/pmerge bootfile kernel.name new.kernel

DESCRIPTION

       The  kernel, vmunix, is not bootable over the network. The pmerge utility prepends the bootfile onto the kernel image (kernel.name) to cre-
       ate a new operating system image (new.kernel) that is bootable over the network.

       Instead of a booting a network loadable kernel, it is sometimes desired to bootstrap link a kernel over the network.  In this  case,  (ker-
       nel.name)  is the name of the sysconfigtab file on the server containing the list of modules to be loaded to the client.  These modules are
       then linked to create a bootable kernel on the client.

       The pmerge utility is used by doconfig(8) to create a bootable operating system for dataless management services (DMS)  client  systems	to
       boot over the network. The pmerge utility is automatically invoked by doconfig(8) during the kernel build process and should not be invoked
       independently.

       The pmerge utility is located in /var/adm/dms/dmsn.alpha/root/usr/sys/bin on the DMS server.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: dmu(8), doconfig(8)

       Sharing Software on a Local Area Network

																	 pmerge(8)