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I NEED TO INSTALL SCO UNIX 5.05 ON MY NEW P4 BOX SATA HARD DRIVE
HI,
I HAVE NEW PENTIUM 4 BOX AND CONFIGURATION IS 2.8 GHZ AND 80 GB SATA DRIVE. INTEL GBF 865
AFTER BOOTING FROM CD THE INITIALL RESPONSE IS NO HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER FOUND AND 0 HARD DISK FOUND.
NOW THE PROBLEM IS, IF I.D HARD DRIVE IS ATTACHED THEN IT WORKS BUT SATA HARD DRIVE IN THE SAME BOX DOESN'T. KINDLY ADVICE ME HOW CAN BE CONFIGURED AND ISTALLED SCO UNIX 5.05.
FURTHERMORE FULL HARD DISK CAPACITY SHOULD BE UTALIZED, WHEN EVER I TRIED TO USE MORE THAN 10 GB, UNIX DOESN'T ACCEPT / SUPPORT AND ONLY COUNT 8 GB.
THANKS AND REGARDS.
I HAVE NEW PENTIUM 4 BOX AND CONFIGURATION IS 2.8 GHZ AND 80 GB SATA DRIVE. INTEL GBF 865
AFTER BOOTING FROM CD THE INITIALL RESPONSE IS NO HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER FOUND AND 0 HARD DISK FOUND.
NOW THE PROBLEM IS, IF I.D HARD DRIVE IS ATTACHED THEN IT WORKS BUT SATA HARD DRIVE IN THE SAME BOX DOESN'T. KINDLY ADVICE ME HOW CAN BE CONFIGURED AND ISTALLED SCO UNIX 5.05.
FURTHERMORE FULL HARD DISK CAPACITY SHOULD BE UTALIZED, WHEN EVER I TRIED TO USE MORE THAN 10 GB, UNIX DOESN'T ACCEPT / SUPPORT AND ONLY COUNT 8 GB.
THANKS AND REGARDS.
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Why do you want to use SCO 5.0.5, it is old, and the kernel doesn't support
P4 CPU + SATA DRIVE.
To modify the kernel to run on the new HW is not an easy task. I remember
back to long time ago, when the first IDE tape driver was release (about 1996?),
there was no driver for SCO, and I have to make it to work on SCO 5.0.2, it took
me about 2 weeks to get it to work, not bad still 2 years before SCO release HW
support for IDE tape.
SCO is getting out of the market, consider use Linux or Solaris x86 instead, have
a look at the following site:
Get a copy of Linux (Free) and install it to your PC:
http://www.tldp.org/
Or
Get Solsris X 86 (free) from:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
P4 CPU + SATA DRIVE.
To modify the kernel to run on the new HW is not an easy task. I remember
back to long time ago, when the first IDE tape driver was release (about 1996?),
there was no driver for SCO, and I have to make it to work on SCO 5.0.2, it took
me about 2 weeks to get it to work, not bad still 2 years before SCO release HW
support for IDE tape.
SCO is getting out of the market, consider use Linux or Solaris x86 instead, have
a look at the following site:
Get a copy of Linux (Free) and install it to your PC:
http://www.tldp.org/
Or
Get Solsris X 86 (free) from:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
Formally it is not supported, and Intel provides no drivers.
Other way is to install WindowsXP or RedHat or SuSE Linux and VmWare workstation on them and run SCO UNIX inside virtual machine.
(no one here forced you to buy incompatible hardware btw)