Re: installing osvr 5 on a Compaq Evo


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On May 18, 8:44 am, "XTREV" <trevi...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On May 16, 2:39 pm, "XTREV" <trevi...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SCO OSVR Release 5.0.2

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Does anyone know how to make the boot floppies for an IDE CD-ROM
in
order
to
install SCO Openserver 5 into a Compaq Evo Pentium 4 1900 MHz, 521
MB
RAM

I have tried to make the BTLD from the CD but it does not boot
from
the
floppy.

I had the UNIX on a Compaq Prosignia but I am running out of disk
space.
I
only have the CD that came with the Prosignia along with the
installation
keys.

Thanks in advance.

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I may have a boot disk for 5.0.2, let me dig around if I find it I
will make a copy and mail it to you, please stand by for another day.

Abid

FOLLOW UP......
Ok, I was able to get some instructions on the web regarding this
subject.

I made a boot disk from the original CD.

I changed the hard drive (80 GB) to the 2nd controller as master, I
changed
the CD drive to the 1st controller as a master.

I booted up with the floppy. Selected SCSI CD to install OS, wd,
0,0,0,0.
Prompted me again to select the install source and selected the same and
recognized the CD drive.

However I got only to the fdisk menu, created the partition and
activated
the partition. That is as far as I went. I could not exit the fdisk
menu
by pressing "q". I never was able to exit the fdisk menu no matter how
many
times I pressed "q". I could not generate the filesystems.

I am running this on a Compaq EVO D500. I did notice a prompt when I
changed the CD drive and Hard Drive to masters to go to setup utilities
if
installing UNIX. However, there were no instructions about UNIX within
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I think you need to put hard disk on the first controller as master
and put CD drive as salve on first controller (nothing on second
controller), jumper setting as Hard disk set for master (with slave
present) and CD-ROM as slave off the first controller (don't use CS
cable select), If I remember correctly you need to set the hard disk
as user define (1024 cyl,16 hd, 63 sec) in the Compaq BIOS utility,
now boot from floppy and change the drive specs with in fdisk, I maybe
missing a step here since I have not done this in a while.

Abid


Thanks for the tip. This Compaq BIOS utility does not allow 1024 cyl, so I
disabled the translation mode.

I changed the parameters you gave me (1024,16,63) at the time it prompted me
in the OS and that installed the OS.



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