Unix SCO Nightmare Over

Someone told me that to be a good IT support person, you had to know more than an average administrator. That statement is based on the fact that administrators are usually specialised in a particular program or programs, but support people are supposed to be 'broad spectrumED' if you like.

So I found a way around the fragmented memory error. There is a command that you are supposed to enter at the boot prompt, before you even "link" the floppy drive..mem=1m-16m,16m-2048m/n. That tells the Unix that the maximum memory is 2GB.

Ok I will stick to my GUI based systems guys.....Thats my verdict.

Still climbing.......

Well. I thought I almost got it. I had the BTLD drivers, formatted diskettes and the zeal of course. So I went to the client site, told the IT Manager I would finalise the installation that day.

So I got to work, typed link at the boot prompt, then types lsil( for LSI Logic 53c1030 BTLD drivers). Everything seemed ok until I got a message saying cannot load Ram Disk. Memory fragmented. I was like WHAT!

I then phoned some Unix guru that I know and he just told me that I had to create the BTLD floppy with Unix. Yeah yeah yeah...... So I got him to give me a couple of commands I could use. So where am I... Couldnt mount the device called cdrom in UNix. It had the image for the drivers. Point is, why should reading from the CD-ROM be such a hustle....in Unix. Man I love my Windows XP !

Am still trying to figure it out. because I have to create the BTLD floppy in Unix, couldnt get rawrite to work for me. Am told windows uses blocks whilst Unix reads the floppy character by character....

Installing SCO Unix on ML370 G4 pt1

I got a licensed copy of SCO openserver release 5.0.5 and am trying to install it on an HP server. I am used to installing Windows server and this was my first time to have a serious interaction with Unix.

Now I know why it is not as popular. The installation is text based, no GUI. After booting with the CD, a message comes saying No Hard Disk Found. From this point on I start to panic. I google the OS and finally get to know that I need BTLDs or Boot-Time Loadable Drivers for the SCSI controller. This happens to be an LSI Logic LSI 1030.

So am still looking for those btlds which are proving hard to find. It looks like a number of people have had this problem as well. I cant find the BTLD on the sco website, maybe am not doing the right searching. But why should it be this hard to install SCO. Someone told me after the installation you have to look for the drivers for things like the NIC.

I hope the latest release of SCO is better, that is to say easier to install.......