Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "free" SCO O/S Message-ID: <199611161734.MAA00747@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199611161348.AAA11428@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 17, 96 00:18:09 am
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> > Ok, so I get a prompt for the BTLD disk, and insert it. Only it > appears that the 'slha' driver isn't on the disk. Or perhaps I > mistyped it. At any rate, this section from the SCO manual is > pertinent : > > NOTE If there are any errors during this extraction (linking) > process, the process is aborted and you are forced to reboot. > > Like hell I am. Stick it back on the shelf and worry about it some > other time. Anyone tells me FreeBSD is difficult to install is going > to get laughed out of the room. > You need to get the BTLD disk from the symbios site. It took me a long time (a few weeks of picking away at it) until I found this out (since I don't know anyone running the turkey.) Once I got it running, I was disappointed. The darned thing is "license-manager" city. It also has lots of bogus symbolic links into wierd places for the various system binaries. Ugly... BTW, at least I could get FreeSCO to boot (after some agony.) I had Solaris 2.5.1 for a week or so, and could never get it to work (and the friend who owns it couldn't either on his machines.) FreeSCO is not a stellar performer, but it does have much faster metadata perf (they have worked on the filesystem alot since I last used SVR3.X.) Otherwise, it is a bit sluggish. John
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