I am adding a new HDD to a Unix Sco Release 5 webserver.

I consider myself a windows pro. However, growing up in the late 90's means I have little Unix knowledge. I know the HDD has to be mounted and formatted correctly. Can anyone give me any advice on this?

A dummy's guide to installing a HDD in unix might help.....!

Thanks

I don't have the exact commands for SCO but I can give you some general advice.

It needs to be partitioned first. Each partition becomes a seperate block device that you can then format, mount, and use. You need to know how you want to divide up the drive, what filesystems the partitions should be, and what directories the partitions should be mounted on.

For Solaris (I know, big help ), I run the command touch /reconfigure and then bring down the system. This file (and reboot -- -r or boot -r when starting from the OpenBootProm) tells Solaris to rebuild the device tree when the system comes back up.

I install the drive and then bring the system up. Running format will show me all the drives the system can see. Enter the drive number (0 to the last disk) then the commands p and p to display the partition table information.

Once that's there, I can assign blocks to specific slices, 0 through 7. Once assigned, I enter the command l for label which writes the partition table to the disk. q to quit and q to quit format puts me back to the prompt.

Once the disk partition table has been written, I need to run newfs on the newly allocated slice which puts down a default ufs type file system. I can then mount it to its new home.

Once it's mounted and I know it works, I'll edit /etc/vfstab and add the new mount point so it's mounted upon next boot.

You might check this site: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

With the commands I layed out above, you might be able to figure out the correct SCO commands to use to do the same thing.

Ohhh, a quick google search finds this: http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/HANDBOO...ks_adding.html

This link might be perfect.

Carl

fdisk(8), mkfs(8), mount(8) is all what you need

Could you be a little more specific?

fdisk will let you partition the disk as you see fit.

mkfs will let you initialize the empty partitions with the filesystem you want.

mount will let you mount partitions where you want on the filesystem. For that to happen automatically on boot, edit /etc/fstab.

For more information on any of these commands, try 'man commandname'