From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky)
Subject: [TUHS] SCO OpenDesktop 386 2.0.0
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:52:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31ACD27B-3D3A-44AF-833A-17A7ECDA522C@gewt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170301224529.GB1262@naleco.com>
That's easier than the way I did it ;)
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 14:45, Josh Good <pepe at naleco.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2017 Feb 27, 14:59, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>> I've been trying this myself today, both on ESXi 6.0U2, and I went and
>> installed ESXi 5.0 as a guest under 6.0U2 :)
>>
>> I notice that when I put the CD as IDE 1:0 (bus 1, master) it doesn't
>> find it. When I put it as 0:0 (bus 0, master), it hangs loading the IDE
>> driver.
>>
>> I suspect it doesn't know about bus 1, so it doesn't hang but also
>> doesn't find it, and there's something wrong with either VMware's
>> implementation of IDE, or SCO's handling of it - or both. I've read
>> where lots of devices in VMware are just to "perfect" for some device
>> drivers to deal with. One glaring example was you couldn't use the LSI
>> SAS driver with Solaris 11. It would either hang or panic, I forget
>> which. Switch to LSI Parallel SCSI, and it was fine.
>>
>> Anyway, I suspect that there's something in the IDE driver that's
>> ignoring bus1, and hanging with VMware's implementation of it.
>>
>> I'm going to try installing ESXi 4.0 and see what happens.
>>
>> On another note, it's possible I just need to install the hard drive as
>> IDE from the get-go, have the CDROM as slave on bus 0 and see what happens.
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> thanks!
>> art k.
>>
>>
>>> On 2/27/2017 12:12 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>> Corey Lindsly wrote:
>>>>> Count me in. I put my hand up for a copy of SCO when they were
>>>>> offering free
>>>>> samplers in the early 2000s, but never heard back from them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to compare it with Linux ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Wesley Parish
>>>>
>>>> For anyone interested, the SCO 2.1 images are available for download
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> http://lod.com/sco
>>>>
>>>> A few things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. I am having some difficulty getting it to install in VMWare ESXi
>>>> 5. The
>>>> floppy image boots, and I get some way into the install process, but SCO
>>>> install does not see the virtual CD-ROM drive. Thus, I'm presented with
>>>> network install options only. At this point, there are a few options:
>>>>
>>>> (a) Track down the driver and/or VMWare settings to fix the CD-ROM
>>>> visibility, and proceed with the install.
>>>>
>>>> (b) Set up a SCO network install server, and proceed.
>>>>
>>>> (c) Try the install on legacy physical hardware instead.
>
> I got it to install successfully, in VMware Server 1.0.2.
>
> The solution is to boot normally with the "id.dd" floppy image provided
> by Corey Lindsly, with the ISO image also provided by Corey configured
> as IDE 0:1 (first channel, slave), and with a virtual IDE disk (I'm
> using 8 GB of size) as 0:0 (first channel, master).
>
> This setup leads to the already known IDE driver hanging. It's a
> problem with the IDE driver provided by SCO with UnixWare 2.1. So,
> when the install process asks whether you want to use a "HBA diskette",
> load into your PC emulator's virtual floppy drive the updated "HBA
> diskette" image provided by SCO for UnixWare 2.1.3, which is here:
> ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/upd213/hba213.img
>
> This will stop the UnixWare 2.1 IDE driver from hanging, and the
> install process will proceed successfully to completion.
>
> It should work equally well in VirtualBox.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Josh Good
>
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-26 5:31 Rudi Blom
2017-02-26 15:07 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-26 18:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-27 7:53 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-02-27 9:51 ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-27 13:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-27 16:49 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-27 17:12 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-27 19:59 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-27 20:06 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-27 20:08 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-27 20:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-28 0:19 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-28 1:15 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-28 1:31 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-28 3:54 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-28 6:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 22:45 ` Josh Good
2017-03-01 22:52 ` Cory Smelosky [this message]
2017-03-01 23:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 23:07 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 23:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 23:24 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-02 19:56 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-03-02 23:24 ` Josh Good
2017-03-03 16:22 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-03 16:54 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-04 4:18 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 4:56 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-28 2:52 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-28 2:55 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-28 21:00 ` Josh Good
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-02-27 0:44 Rudi Blom
2017-02-26 0:55 Cory Smelosky
2017-02-26 3:35 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-26 3:46 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-26 16:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-26 18:50 ` Cory Smelosky
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