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Instead of a USB floppy drive, how about a USB flash drive? If SCO can understand the FAT filesystem, that is; pretty sure MAC can. Make a tarball to put on the drive, that should preserve...

Add the script to /etc/rc2.d
Name it S99z..... so that it starts last. The scripts in this directory are started in alphabetical order.
Scripts that start with a 'K' are run on system shutdown....

At the boot prompt enter the following:

boot: hd(41)unix

You can boot SCO off either drive with this option. Most Linux come with a bootloader program so that you can select which...

If you have multiple hard drives, there is one more caveat. If your drives are IDE (PATA) hard drives, the /boot directory must be on a hard drive attached to the primary IDE controller. If your...

If you have the install media with floppy you can boot with the floppy, at boot: type tools. This will load the OS into memory and allow you to run the fsck /dev/hd0root.

Strange that an fsck was not automatically run when you rebooted.

Here is the official SCO way to Restore a corrupted root filesystem (http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/SM_trouble/restroot.html)