On 2004-07-26, Ralph Scharping <scharping@mettmann.com> wrote:
> Whoa - so much to do!
>
> Thank you all so very much for your help. I'll get to work right away.
> I did not realize that the Xenix FS ist named Sys V in Linux. That will be
> my first try, becaue I know that all the manuals say it should be possible -
> they just don't mention how to go about.

You might want to read the documentation on the Sys V FS support in
Linux:

This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for Linux.
It implements all of
- Xenix FS,
- SystemV/386 FS,
- Coherent FS.

This is version beta 4.

To install:
* Answer the 'System V and Coherent filesystem support' question with
'y'
when configuring the kernel.
* To mount a disk or a partition, use
mount [-r] -t sysv device mountpoint
The file system type names
-t sysv
-t xenix
-t coherent
may be used interchangeably, but the last two will eventually
disappear.

Bugs in the present implementation:
- Coherent FS:
- The "free list interleave" n:m is currently ignored.
- Only file systems with no filesystem name and no pack name are
recognized.
(See Coherent "man mkfs" for a description of these features.)
- SystemV Release 2 FS:
The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which
corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No support
for this FS on hard disk yet.


Please report any bugs and suggestions to
Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Pascal Haible <haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de>
Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl>

Bruno Haible
<haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>