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Operating Systems SCO SCO UNIX Won't Boot Post 302363596 by jgt on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 05:12:49 PM
Old 10-20-2009
First.
#tar tvf /dev/rct0 >/tmp/tapelist
Examine the contents of tapelist and then decide whether to:
#tar xvf /dev/rct0 /u1
or
#tar xvf /dev/rct0 u1

In both cases this will create a directory in the root file system called u1.

Also you can check /etc/default/tar, in all likelihood, "tar tvf /dev/rct0" can be shortened to "tar tv8" where 8 is used to substitute the appropriate line from /etc/default/tar.

There will be no difference in system operation whether u1 is a directory or a file system, other than not having to mount a u1 file system.

If you need other files off the tape, create a directory called oldroot, and extract the tape into it, (check for absolute file names on the tape.)
Offhand you may want to look at /etc/passwd, to find the uid numbers, and add the users back the same way,
/usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces for code added to the printer models.
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs
/etc/rc2.d
 

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devinfo(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       devinfo(1M)

NAME
devinfo - print device specific information SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device /usr/sbin/devinfo -p device DESCRIPTION
The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the superuser. OPTIONS
-i Prints the following device information: o Device name o Software version (not supported and prints as 0) o Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0) o Device blocks per cylinder o Device bytes per block o Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero -p Prints the following device partition information: o Device name o Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal) o Partition start block o Number of blocks allocated to the partition o Partition flag o Partition tag This command is used by various other commands to obtain device specific information for the making of file systems and determining parti- tion information. If the device cannot be opened, an error message is reported. OPERANDS
device Device name. EXIT STATUS
0 Successful operation. 2 Operation failed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 8 May 1997 devinfo(1M)
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