[unixguy]

I have a SCSI drive (Adaptec controller) with SCO openserver 5 installed. Someone changed the root password; now nobody knows what it is. I installed the drive on a Redhat Linux machine (as ID1, booting from ID0) to see if I could access the files I need. When I try to mount the SCO drive, using /dev/sdb1, the only files that appear are DOS files - about 9Mb worth. There are no SCO files at all. No other /dev/sdb* device is recognized as valid for mounting. Does anyone have any ideas what else I can try to read the Unix directories from the 2nd drive or overriding the root password? I tried booting SCO from a floppy but it just wants to reinstall the OS.

[Squashman]

What filesystem is the SCO hard drive using.

[Whiteskin]

^^Yes... what file system are you using. And how did you mount it.

Have you tried ls -a? (I have heard that some filesytems (on older kernels) can show up with all files starting with a . This would mean that no files are being seen by normal ls)

[tsunam]

hmm the sco drive has the ability to boot itself correct on whatever machine it was? Is the bios/boot for it locked down where you can't log into /single and change the password that way back to what it was?