03-16-2012
I have an SCO Sistem V 3.2 V4.2 running, since 1995, it crashes two weeks ago, yes more than 17 years without problems. This machine was a real 1995 machine still working. I have started the raise dead process ... jajaj . My first problem was find a machine with hardware that supports this OS. I get one. I have installed the os. with my original floppy disks (I will make a copy and put then into a cd ), every thing was ok ... I started to install the TCP / IP .... the I get an error on the disk 3. This OS was unsupported since 2003 or before by SCO. I have tried to get this disks but I 've got not good results .
This kind of problem is interesting to my, In my academic work I am interested on old fortran legacy systems.. yes Fortran !!! there is alot of code that needs to be updated or improved with more than 40 years since they saw the light of the day
... I think that kind of legacy problems like those, will be more common as time goes by.
I think that there should be a place to put together all of this old software. Moreover nowadays it is difficult to find a new brand machine with floppy disks ( I have gathered 10 of this units in order to have them available in the future) ...
Best Regards
Mariano
Last edited by locovich; 03-16-2012 at 03:31 PM..
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mkfs.bfs
MKFS.BFS(8) System Administration MKFS.BFS(8)
NAME
mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem
SYNOPSIS
mkfs.bfs [options] device [block-count]
DESCRIPTION
mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs filesystem on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).
The block-count parameter is the desired size of the filesystem, in blocks. If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used.
OPTIONS
-N, --inodes number
Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512). If nothing is specified, some default number in the range 48-512 is picked
depending on the size of the partition.
-V, --vname label
Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.
-F, --fname name
Specify the filesystem name. I have no idea if/where this is used.
-v, --verbose
Explain what is being done.
-c This option is silently ignored.
-l This option is silently ignored.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit. Option -V only works as --version when it is the only option.
EXIT CODES
The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.
SEE ALSO
mkfs(8).
AVAILABILITY
The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux July 2011 MKFS.BFS(8)