Installing SCO Openserver 5.0.2

Steve Williamson

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Jun 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/28/97

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I'm having difficulty installing SCO OperServer 5.0.2 (Free SCO
Openserver) onto a 486. Hardware includes two physical IDE drives,
3.8GB (5 DOS [FAT] partitions followed by one unformatted partition for
SCO) + 420MB.

I am attempting to install from an ATAPI CDROM (Master on 2nd IDE
channel)

UNIX boots (eventually) but after the device list there is a message
something like "no boot disk controller".

Later, it crashes out immediately after the timezone details have been
entered with the following message:

"NOTICE ram: No space on device on device 31/50."

UNIX then closes down with the Safe to switch off/any key to continue
messages.

Any ideas?

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David Clayton

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Jun 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/29/97

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Steve Williamson <St...@chipping.demon.co.uk> contributed the following:

>I'm having difficulty installing SCO OperServer 5.0.2 (Free SCO
>Openserver) onto a 486. Hardware includes two physical IDE drives,
>3.8GB (5 DOS [FAT] partitions followed by one unformatted partition for
>SCO) + 420MB.

....
There is a known problem with IDE drives over 2G, you will need the Boot
Time Loadable Driver (BTLD) oss451b which is available from the SCO
support site, (www.sco.com).

Get it, create the BTLD disk, and use the following boot string for your
install at the "Boot:" prompt.

"biosgeom restart ahslink=wd"

And then supply the BTLD disk when requested, it should make all the
difference.

Regards, David.
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David Clayton, e-mail: dcs...@acslink.aone.net.au
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Jeff Liebermann

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Jun 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/29/97

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Steve Williamson (St...@chipping.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I'm having difficulty installing SCO OperServer 5.0.2 (Free SCO

: Openserver) onto a 486. Hardware includes two physical IDE drives,
: 3.8GB (5 DOS [FAT] partitions followed by one unformatted partition for
: SCO) + 420MB.

(...)

See (*) below.

http://www3.sco.com/Products/openind.html Free OSR5 page.
http://www.postino.com/sco/scofaq.html SCO ODT/OSR5 FAQ
http://www2.sco.com:1996/dochome.html OSR5 html docs
http://www3.sco.com/Products/freeunix/relnotes.htm OSR5 Release Notes
http://www.sco.com/Support/ SCO Support Main Page
http://www.sco.com/Support/ssl.html SCO Support Library Search
* http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/ide.htm My IDE/ATAPI Install notes
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/notes.htm My SCSI Install notes
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/sco.htm My SCO index page

There is a fix for drives larger than 2GB on the SCO web pile.
oss451a: WDATAPI BTLD for EIDE
oss451a.Z 119296 (29660) WDATAPI BTLD for EIDE for
oss451a.ltr 2814 (57863) SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.0, 5.0.2

Good luck.

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Leandro André Darcanchy

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Jul 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/2/97

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You can't use LBA mode in the BIOS of your machine.
Try with normal mode. It works with me.

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> I'm having difficulty installing SCO OperServer 5.0.2 (Free SCO
> Openserver) onto a 486. Hardware includes two physical IDE drives,
> 3.8GB (5 DOS [FAT] partitions followed by one unformatted partition for
> SCO) + 420MB.
>