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Please bear with me as this is my first attempt at any kind of UNIX
environment -
I have worked with NT and with Netware, but UNIX is altogether different
for me....

I am trying to install SCO 5.0.4 from an EIDE/ATAPI CDROM drive.

The hardware is:
    CPU:                       AMD 586 133mhz
    RAM:                     12 MEG
    HARD DRIVES:    WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR 540 MEG [2 of them]
                                  both on Primary IDE controller, one as
master, on as slave

    CDROM:               MITSUMI 8x [uses toshiba/sanyo driver in DOS or
Win95]
                                  on Secondary IDE controller as master
                                    [controller is at IRQ 11, I/O addr
0170h]
    VIDEO:               Paradise SVGA w/512k [8-bit card]

    NIC:                    Linksys 10 mbps Ethernet [NE2000 compatible]

                                [set for IRQ 5, I/O addr 0300h]

I have previously installed on [and removed each from] this machine
Win3.1/Dos, Win95,
WinNT 3.51 Server, Win NT 4.0 Server, and Netware 3.11 and 4.0, so I
know the
hardware works. I tried to install Yggdrasil Plus-and-Play Linux, but I
could not get the X-Window
GIU to run properly.

I have of course rtfm, but when I try to link the ATAPI from the BTLD
disk, I get an error that says that
it cannot locate the specified module.

If anyone has done this successfully, I would appreciate knowing what
sting you have passed at the BOOT: prompt
to link the ATAPI BTLD, and which version of the BTLD or supplement disk
from SCO were you using.

I have looked at the SCO www site and found some info about downloading
disk images, but it is unclear how to
create a Unix disk image from a Dos or Win95 machine. Again - any input
would be greatly appreciated....

Thanks in advance for helping me with my 'baby steps'  in the Unix
world.

Please copy your reply via email as I do not get to the newsgroups too
often [I hope that will change].

Adam Dean Lipsius schreef:

Quote:> Please bear with me as this is my first attempt at any kind of UNIX
> environment -
> I have worked with NT and with Netware, but UNIX is altogether
> different
> for me....

> I am trying to install SCO 5.0.4 from an EIDE/ATAPI CDROM drive.

> The hardware is:
>     CPU:                       AMD 586 133mhz
>     RAM:                     12 MEG
>     HARD DRIVES:    WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR 540 MEG [2 of them]
>                                   both on Primary IDE controller, one
> as
> master, on as slave

>     CDROM:               MITSUMI 8x [uses toshiba/sanyo driver in DOS
> or
> Win95]
>                                   on Secondary IDE controller as
> master
>                                     [controller is at IRQ 11, I/O addr

> 0170h]
>     VIDEO:               Paradise SVGA w/512k [8-bit card]

>     NIC:                    Linksys 10 mbps Ethernet [NE2000
> compatible]

>                                 [set for IRQ 5, I/O addr 0300h]

> I have previously installed on [and removed each from] this machine
> Win3.1/Dos, Win95,
> WinNT 3.51 Server, Win NT 4.0 Server, and Netware 3.11 and 4.0, so I
> know the
> hardware works. I tried to install Yggdrasil Plus-and-Play Linux, but
> I
> could not get the X-Window
> GIU to run properly.

> I have of course rtfm, but when I try to link the ATAPI from the BTLD
> disk, I get an error that says that
> it cannot locate the specified module.

> If anyone has done this successfully, I would appreciate knowing what
> sting you have passed at the BOOT: prompt
> to link the ATAPI BTLD, and which version of the BTLD or supplement
> disk
> from SCO were you using.

> I have looked at the SCO www site and found some info about
> downloading
> disk images, but it is unclear how to
> create a Unix disk image from a Dos or Win95 machine. Again - any
> input
> would be greatly appreciated....

> Thanks in advance for helping me with my 'baby steps'  in the Unix
> world.

> Please copy your reply via email as I do not get to the newsgroups too

> often [I hope that will change].

I used the following bootstring:

Boot: defbootstr ahslink=ATAPI Srom=(0,1,0,0)

SCO Will try to emulate SCSI by replacing the wd driver... the Srom
parameters are as follows

1st: 0 for primary controller, 1 for secondary
2nd: 0 for master, 1 for slave
3th and 4th always 0 with ATAPI drives....

It will then load the driver from the supplement disk, but I cannot get
any further than the Installation media selection... I'd like some help
too

thanx
Rien Broekstra

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