HI,
Friends and gurus in my office there is 486 server running wipros's WINIX its a unix based operating system. scsi hdd

my problem is that that server is not running there is some motherboard issue

i must take the back-up of that server, immediately
so what i did is i removed the scsi hdd and i connected as slave to rhel5 box
its kernel is 2.6.18-53.els. it detected as /dev/sda4 when i tried to mount.

mount /dev/sda4 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1080 MB, 1080238080 bytes
122 heads, 17 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 = 1061888 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda4 * 1 1017 1054628+ 63 GNU HURD or SysV


Please can any body help me how to mount this GNU HURD or SysV in rhel5.

Any help is appreciateable

Thanks in Advance
jnreddy

Sure...read the man page on the 'mount' command, and read the error message you're getting.

You need to specify the filesystem type, and the man page for 'mount' (http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount), specifically mentions the sysv filesystem type. So, try "mount -t sysv /dev/sda4 /mnt"

hi, TB0ne

I tried the mount -t sysv /dev/sda4 /mnt

i got the message no sysv file system.

Really am saying i googled 18 hours at a stretch for mounting this sysv filesystem.
finally i got the Back pain bot not remedy for sysv file system.
now am searching remedy for my back pain.

Thanks In Advance
Jnreddy

That means your system doesn't have support for the sysv filesystem.

Since you Googled for 18 hours, I'm sure you came across the pages that mentioned doing "modprobe sysv", to install sysv support into your running kernel, so you COULD mount it, right??