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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:00:50 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Beware of UnixWare 7
Message-ID:  <19990618190050.E2863@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906180914.SAA19399@gizmo.internode.com.au>; from Mark Newton on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 06:44:50PM %2B0930
References:  <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> <199906180914.SAA19399@gizmo.internode.com.au>

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On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a
>> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO.  If so, be careful when installing it.
>
> SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as
> long as I can remember.

To be fair, this is UnixWare (ex Novell, ex Univel, ex USL), not
OpenDeathtrap.  I always thought it a little better, but I never tried
to share disks with it before.

> Don't even try installing it anywhere other than on your normal boot
> disk either.  I've never had any luck getting SCO OpenServer onto a
> secondary disk of any kind.

That wouldn't surprise me.

Greg
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