On 27 Mar, 10:25, "Brian K. White" <br...@aljex.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nka...@gmail.com>
>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
> To: <dis...@jpr.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:15 AM
> Subject: Enabling USB for OpenServer 5.0.6
>
> > For various reasons, I'd like access to some attached USB storage on
> > an OpenSErver 5.0.6 system I'm dealing with. But diggingn through the
> > various mixed up naming schemes for SCO software packages is awkward:
> > can anyone identify for me the packages I'll need to install and
> > update for best performance? Or have a walkthrough on how to attach
> > such storage devices?
>
> > The devices are currently Linux built ext3 filesystems, but I'm happy
> > to work with FAT32 for this for maximum cross-platform compatibility.
>
> Why??? load your system into a vmware and then the underlying host os can access all the usb devices you want.
>
> As someone in another mail list recently pointed out, "buy new pants" is not a helpful solution to the problem of dirty pants.

Unfortunately, I need a place to put all the stuff from the pockets
before I can scrub the machinen and install a virtualized environment
on it, and I don't have a spare server with the additional horsepower
to run an effective VM on at the moment.