2 Mar
2017
2 Mar
'17
8:56 p.m.
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
Good stuff. Thanks. I was able to do the install in ESXi 5 with no
problems using this information. Has anyone gotten the networking setup?
There is an Intel PRO/1000 NIC driver package on the SCO site (ptf4016c)
but it is for UW2.1.3 only and I was not able to get it to go. Sadly, the
original 2.1 package ptf4016a appears to be gone. I suppose the next step
would be to run through the updates from 2.1 to 2.1.3 unless someone else
can share a simpler way to bring up a NIC.
--corey