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From: "gOmp Umstellung" <umstellung@gomp.net>
Subject: SCO OpenServer 5.0.2Dp running inside vmWare 3.0-1455 !
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:17:18 +0100

Hello

Okay, this may be very well the wrong address to post this information, but
please read on.

I managed to get a bare-metal installation of SCO OpenServer 5.02Dp running
inside vmWare 3.0-1455 (the release build) I needed SCO OSR5 for some odd
reason (old software) and of course no additional machine wasted.

System: Pentium Pro 200 (kinda old)
AHA2940x (alad) host adapter
IDE ATAPI CDROM at 1:0 (SecMaster)
96MB RAM
2 x 2GB SCSI Disks
PS2 Mouse & Keyboard

bare-metal
Boot and install as usual
- alad is builtin
- ide dito

installed a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2Dp (Enterprise) just for the record
let the setup partition the first scsi disk
- installing *blah blah* -
disbaled scologin! vmWare is typically slow thus i decided to disable it
rebooted into maintenance only
added the 'blc' BTLD via installbtld and my NEW btld disk
*** NOT FROM THE AHS DISK ! IT WONT WORK ! ***
get the Buslogic BTLD off the Mylex FTP
- http://www.mylex.com/products/flashpoint/drivers/

say no to the question about queueing... ( maybe it works if you said yes I
dunno)
in scoadmin i added a harddisk (option 2 for scsi)
- driver blc
- hba bus lun id all zero (0)
relinked and so on

- the vmware thingy -
I first got frustrated about no root disk found (missed hd bootstring)
set up a new box in vmware
- floppy A:
- SCSI Disc 0:0 - Mode RAW - choose your scsi disk containing your SCO
installation
- IDE/ATAPI CDROM 1:0 - Enabled Raw Access (i already do)
- Briged Network
- Memory 256MB
- Guest System: Other

first time fire up the box
Boot
: defbootstr hd=Sdsk Sdsk=blc(0,0,0)
- NOT! Sdsk=blc(0,0,0,0) the optional BUS zero confuses the loader!!!

it should come up fine
clean the kernel from the 'alad' driver
and add the AMD PCnet driver (my version did prompt it in scoadmin, Install
'n Go)

what you can NOT use is your floppy... thats the cause why you can't install
SCO the normal way.

- final steps -
get a VirtualDisk file from what you have made! (and copy it as many time as
you can :*)
get something bootable that can make disk copies (dd, partition magic, etc)
in vmWare add another scsi disk (a virual one which is BIGGER than your raw
disk)
boot up your 'copy system' and raw copy the contents from disk to disk

on the destination server (4x XEON 933Mhz 4 GB Ram) it runs smooth with the
parameters given, sure it complains about 'register me' because I didnt do
that yet

hope that helps, and you understood this strange mail

Marco Mattle

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