Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Can SCO & FreeBSD coexist? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971007081256.8365A-100000@bsampley>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Greetings, I've been trying to get SCO Unixware 2.1.2 (the free version) and FBSD to coexist on the same system. So far they don't seem to like each other. Here's what I've tried: Installed M$ DOS/Lose95 (for games only!) then FBSD (3.0) then SCO to a single HD (4.3 gig 'cuda on a 2940). What's happening is SCO starts as 2.1.1 then I have to install the patches and rebuild the kernel to bring it up to 2.1.2 (which is needed to get Morning Star PPP working and to load Netscape). Sometime after I rebuild the kernel FBSD starts puking. When I attempt to boot FBSD fsck pukes on the /var partition. So far I haven't been able to recover FBSD (I usually have to re-install FBSD). I've tried a similar setup with EIDE drives but the end result was exactly the same. I posted a message to one of the Unixware newsgroups. One of the responses was to NOT use Boot Easy, but instead to use OS-BS. I seem to recall some problems with FBSD and OS-BS (don't flame me if I'm wrong). Any suggestions on how to get both to coexist? Am I the only person having this kind of trouble? The reason I'm trying to get SCO working is to attempt to learn Sys-V Unix. I'm also open to other alternatives, if someone is aware of something equal or better (and is also FBSD friendly) than SCO. I've thought about Solaris (I think I can get an educational copy for around $100), but Solaris is supposed to be a blend of BSD & SYS V. Thanks in advance for your help. - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNDpXeHt2O8KJtMdBAQEN+gP/RUkxkJiZUTwx2zfz5ogvGe3XqcQQtBzK HytSHED+XCpdGr3sDopnPTGZYAM5MLo/DuRYFV/XaFWHqahK9PIVg+bS9nZes5tG CRnpw/mm1asHnzK6cNlhHvw5UdT4kfh8ZikGHeOz/JT8dIAvo6KpxIOeWBcYaN34 jHZesry+Go0= =m5G/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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