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The Process

This information is not always easy to find, particularly if you are just coming into the SCO world and are faced with an OS that won't let anybody log in but the root user because the demo/trial license has expired...

Before starting, make sure you have all the license information for the license shown in the License Manager. You will need:

• the serial number,
• license key,
• your host has connectivity to the Internet (as it might need to talk to SCO's servers)
• and license data (key extension).

If you do not have this information, contact your SCO software supplier to obtain it. Once you have all the license information before you, do the following:

1. Boot in single-user mode: # init 1
   1. Make a backup copy of the kernel called unix.good:

      1. btmnt -w 

      2. cp /stand/unix /stand/unix.good 

      3. btmnt -r   

2. Brand the kernel with the correct license information:

   1. brand -a "license-data" SERIAL-NUMBER license-code  /etc/conf/pack.d/kernel/os.a  

3. Relink the kernel:

   1. /etc/conf/cf.d/link_unix   

4. Reboot the system.

   1. /sbin/shutdown -y -g0 -i6 

It's that easy.

Call us if you need any help with SCO or any other UNIX variant, we know them all (GIRLS, POSIX, DIGIX, UNIX SVR4, UNIX SVR5, BSD, LINUX, DYNIX, AIX, HPUX, XENIX, CP/M, OS/8, OS/9, VMS, etc.)