From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:52:03 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] SCO OpenDesktop 386 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <20170301224529.GB1262@naleco.com> References: <20170227164945.B85704115@lod.com> <58B45E05.1080205@gewt.net> <16b6c61c-cc91-14e3-46d9-e83a198fd2c8@kilonet.net> <20170301224529.GB1262@naleco.com> Message-ID: <31ACD27B-3D3A-44AF-833A-17A7ECDA522C@gewt.net> That's easier than the way I did it ;) Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017, at 14:45, Josh Good 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 >