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From: Tony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrade/rebuild of root fs References: <zlfT9.2140$jt4.645@news.bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:37:11 GMT

James Powell wrote:
> I have inherited a sco open server 5.05 system that will not relink the
> kernel.  The system was installed as an enterprise edition but w/o IP
> services.  There is no full system backup that can be used to recover, so, I
> plan to either reinstall the root fs or rebuild from scratch and restore
> user fs.  

It's very unlikely that there is a /usr filesystem if that's even what 
you meant.

>The online docs say I can do this but doesn't address the license
> issues. 

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Not sure what you are reading but I bet you are thinking that you have / 
and /usr filesystems and that you could reinstall without touching /usr. 
  That's NOT going to happen.  Normal SCO installs would never have /usr 
as a separate fs and in fact you have to work pretty hard to make that 
happpen at all.

> I do not plan to change the fs layout on the existing drive, so my
> question is should I remove the license in either situation that being
> rebuild root or reinstall?  What must I do to register if necessary?

As Bela said, you probably don't need to do this at all.. see for 
example http://www.pcunix.com/Unixart/linkfail.html

But if you did, licensing has nothing to do with it and registration is 
a completely optional step that has nothing to do with operability.

You might want to look at http://aplawrence.com/newtosco.html

-- 
Tony Lawrence
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