Change the Harddrive in the Activant SCO UNIX Server 5.05

This is what i did to change the hard drive in the 2003 7 year old activant eagle server with out any help from them.

-Log in

-Type "SHUTDOWN"

-Run all end-of-day, Back Up to tape if you have one

-type QUIT

-type "powerdwn"

-Do you wish to power down y/n

-type Y

open the case, clean it while you are in there!

pull the, in our case 40 gig eide western digital

brought it over to the mac, used a USB 2 IDE adaptor,

Image the

drive...

open terminal in mac

- type

- diskutil list

- now you see the 40 gb drive, /dev/disk0 or something like that

- type: sudo su

- dd bs=1m if=/dev/disk0 of=unix.image

- this will take some time you can follow the status of this by typing in ls -l

it will show you the size of unix.image, when it gets to 40 gb wala!

- now, unmount the 40 gig drive

- connect the new IDE drive, in my case it was a western digital blue 320gig 32mb cache

- diskutil list - just to make sure the device has not changed numbers

- dd bs=1m if=unix.image of=/dev/disk0

- you can now open up activity monitor, and click on disk activity and when it counts up to 40gig written +/- it will be complete.

this will write boot loader, Partition Table, File system everything,

here is the only limitation, that new 320 gig hard drive is now just a 40

gig, but a brand new much faster one and ready to run for years to come! hopefully!