I need read data from Disk,please help

Hallo,
can You help me with this problem:
I have Hard Disk with "SCO Server Release 5.0" and I need read the data from the disk.
Know You how can I do it?
I only know that the file system is ISC UNIX .
I test FreeBSD, but I can not mount the disk (with error message "incorrect super block").

Sorry I am begginer in UNIX.

Thank you
Fik

See How to mount a SCO file system in Linux - it may help assist you.

hallo,
I read "How to mount a SCO file system in Linux" and because I am beginer in Linux I don't know how to install the patch which is on the web...
can you help
thanks

I recommend you read a few articles like this one:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue32/bandel.html

I suggest you don't patch the kernel, just rebuild it with support for the SCO filesystem.

Are you using SCO or Linux or BSD?

OK, I read it.
I install FreeBSD release 5.0 but only minimum installation.I can insltall SuseLinux 8.0 too.
What will be better, don't you know?

Note: the partitions Id on the disk, from that I want to read data, is 63hex, it's GNU Hard partitions type,I think

I am not experienced in how many and what types of filesystems BSD supports. From my expereience Linux can support many filesystems and, as a Linux user, I would simply rebuilt the Linux kernal to support the filesystem I need to mount (in this example, the filesystem used by SCO).

For linux:

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda  (for the first IDE disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/sdc  (for the third SCSI disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/eda  (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
  or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0  or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0  (for RAID devices)
  ...
www# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9964.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): m
Command action
   a   toggle a bootable flag
   b   edit bsd disklabel
   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag
   d   delete a partition
   l   list known partition types
   m   print this menu
   n   add a new partition
   o   create a new empty DOS partition table
   p   print the partition table
   q   quit without saving changes
   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel
   t   change a partition's system id
   u   change display/entry units
   v   verify the partition table
   w   write table to disk and exit
   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): l

 0  Empty           1c  Hidden Win95 FA 70  DiskSecure Mult bb  Boot Wizard hid
 1  FAT12           1e  Hidden Win95 FA 75  PC/IX           be  Solaris boot   
 2  XENIX root      24  NEC DOS         80  Old Minix       c1  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 3  XENIX usr       39  Plan 9          81  Minix / old Lin c4  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 4  FAT16 <32M      3c  PartitionMagic  82  Linux swap      c6  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 5  Extended        40  Venix 80286     83  Linux           c7  Syrinx         
 6  FAT16           41  PPC PReP Boot   84  OS/2 hidden C:  da  Non-FS data    
 7  HPFS/NTFS       42  SFS             85  Linux extended  db  CP/M / CTOS / .
 8  AIX             4d  QNX4.x          86  NTFS volume set de  Dell Utility   
 9  AIX bootable    4e  QNX4.x 2nd part 87  NTFS volume set df  BootIt         
 a  OS/2 Boot Manag 4f  QNX4.x 3rd part 8e  Linux LVM       e1  DOS access     
 b  Win95 FAT32     50  OnTrack DM      93  Amoeba          e3  DOS R/O        
 c  Win95 FAT32 (LB 51  OnTrack DM6 Aux 94  Amoeba BBT      e4  SpeedStor      
 e  Win95 FAT16 (LB 52  CP/M            9f  BSD/OS          eb  BeOS fs        
 f  Win95 Ext'd (LB 53  OnTrack DM6 Aux a0  IBM Thinkpad hi ee  EFI GPT        
10  OPUS            54  OnTrackDM6      a5  FreeBSD         ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/
11  Hidden FAT12    55  EZ-Drive        a6  OpenBSD         f0  Linux/PA-RISC b
12  Compaq diagnost 56  Golden Bow      a7  NeXTSTEP        f1  SpeedStor      
14  Hidden FAT16 <3 5c  Priam Edisk     a8  Darwin UFS      f4  SpeedStor      
16  Hidden FAT16    61  SpeedStor       a9  NetBSD          f2  DOS secondary  
17  Hidden HPFS/NTF 63  GNU HURD or Sys ab  Darwin boot     fd  Linux raid auto
18  AST SmartSleep  64  Novell Netware  b7  BSDI fs         fe  LANstep        
1b  Hidden Win95 FA 65  Novell Netware  b8  BSDI swap       ff  BBT     

Are you sure of the filesystem type of the hard disk you want to mount?

It's OK, but I'am begginer in Linux and I don't know how rebuilt the Linux kernel to support the filesystem I need to mount...