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The president of my company wants to give our salesman a laptop/notebook
that is capable of running SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 for use in doing software
demos of our product. We have an IBM ThinkPad 760 CD, and it doesn't seem
to want to install SCO. Install dies after the N1 floppy loads at about
the point where the divvy should run to create partitions.

If anyone has any experiences that they could share it would be appreciated.
E-mail or posts are fine, I will summarize if desired. Thanks a million,

        -Greg

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There are a couple of IBM compatibility supplements -- EFS 130 and SLS
uod383 on ftp.sco.com.  As far as I know, the 760CD hasn't been tested
at all, but you could try with those supplements.  Read the docs to see
what they do, decide which (if either) would help.  BTW, the EFS 130
docs claim it's only for Unix 3.2v4.0 and 4.1, and ODT 2.0, but it does
actually apply to 3.2v4.2 and ODT 3.0 as well.

Quote:>Bela<

: The president of my company wants to give our salesman a laptop/notebook
: that is capable of running SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 for use in doing software
: demos of our product. We have an IBM ThinkPad 760 CD, and it doesn't seem
: to want to install SCO. Install dies after the N1 floppy loads at about
: the point where the divvy should run to create partitions.

The problem with the ThinkPad is that it's a wonderfully smart
machine that knows everything it needs to know about all of
it's devices, including it's hard drive.

Which means that if your drive is large enough to have more than
1024 cylinders, or more than 16 heads, you can't tell it anything
different in the BIOS because it doesn't think you should need to.

Frustratingly enough, the drive can actually do sector translation;
you just have no way to tell it that is your desire...

I think the 340 meg drive fits under those parameters, and will
work.

BTW, it's also fun figuring out the address of your parallel port.
The ThinkPad thinks it is enough to tell you that you *have*
a parallel port :-)

('twas at the monochrome address on the one I installed).

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Tony

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>There are a couple of IBM compatibility supplements -- EFS 130 and SLS
>uod383 on ftp.sco.com.  As far as I know, the 760CD hasn't been tested
>at all, but you could try with those supplements.  Read the docs to see
>what they do, decide which (if either) would help.  BTW, the EFS 130
>docs claim it's only for Unix 3.2v4.0 and 4.1, and ODT 2.0, but it does
>actually apply to 3.2v4.2 and ODT 3.0 as well.

How about OSR 5.0? It generally supports a wider selection of hardware, would
it stand a chance? We are faced with the same problem, we don't want to buy
them unless we know they'll work under OSR 5.0.

Zeyd
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