Comments on: Installing SCO Unix, part 1

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:27:51 +0000

In reply to James Michael Stephens. I just use gzip.


gzip -dc uod429a.Z > uod429a.vfd

for what it's worth some MD5's


811614f760f3449a8d8d2aae6b991840 uod429a.vfd
764ed4f8c06421cef57dfccb9e15904b uod429a.Z

By: James Michael Stephens

James Michael Stephens — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:42:55 +0000

I am having issues with the uod429a.Z file. How are you moving this to a floppy? I can’t seem to find a program that can unzip the archive.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 03:38:21 +0000

In reply to Ian Dunbar. it still could be useful!

By: Ian Dunbar

Ian Dunbar — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:25:25 +0000

In reply to Friggigatto. Turns out I was incorrect. It was not the Development System, but was in fact the Network System. Not actually sure what that gets you. Based on the manuals included, maybe NFS and IPX/SPX support?

By: readmelast

readmelast — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:01:02 +0000

SCO networking does work with VMware Player, Workstation, ESX etc if you use the pnt AMD PCNET family driver from the v3.4 LLI driver disk.

You may have amend the VMX file to change the ethernet.virtualDev entry to “vlance”.

Performance is variable, seemingly dependent on the underlying physical hardware. I get about 8MB/s on an old Core2 Duo based laptop and less than 0.5MB/s on my Ryzen 3600 based desktop. YMMV

By: Friggigatto

Friggigatto — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:18:40 +0000

In reply to Ian Dunbar. I'm sure we could arrange for somebody with a working drive to dump the content

By: Ian Dunbar

Ian Dunbar — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:53:38 +0000

In reply to Friggigatto. Seeing part two of your writeup reminds me: that CD copy of OpenDesktop 3 was found in a box that contained a copy of the development system. When I get a chance I'll check the version, but it's probably the one intended to go along with that OpenDesktop CD. Unfortunately it's on QIC tape (the full size kind), and I don't have a tape drive for dumping that.

By: Friggigatto

Friggigatto — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:32:55 +0000

In reply to Ian Dunbar. Hey Ian, thanks for uploading the copy in the first place! Yes, I did post the short solution to BA first :)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:11:56 +0000

In reply to Ian Dunbar. cool. part 2 is where the real fun starts, and Ill put it up tomorrow.

By: Ian Dunbar

Ian Dunbar — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:10:42 +0000

Oh hey! I’m pretty sure that copy of OpenDesktop from BetaArchive was uploaded by me. I think there was a post in the BA forum about getting this to work a few months ago. Good to see a writeup of the whole process though.