From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 18 2:31:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A981500D for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA09034; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:01:07 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA03333; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:00:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:00:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Newton Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <19990618190050.E2863@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> <199906180914.SAA19399@gizmo.internode.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199906180914.SAA19399@gizmo.internode.com.au>; from Mark Newton on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 06:44:50PM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message