Old Unix Install Problem

Hello,
Could anybody help me. I have been trying to install SCO Unix
3.2v4.2 (old!) onto a Compact Proliant 1500 Server with a 32 Bit Wide SCSI 2
Hard drive controller. I downloaded the EFS 3.18 supplement and made a new
N1 disk. I link in a CUCHA boot time loadable driver at Boot: This enabaled
the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My problem
is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a Unix
partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the language,
country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-

Extracting Files .......

(NULL)

inst4/rtsinstall failed.

It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "

If I reboot it end up in the same place.

I cannot find out what may be wrong as the error message is less than
helpfull.!!

If anybody (with a good memory) can help me out here I would greatly
appreciate it. I know it's an old system but it's imperative I get this
working.

Many Thanks

Adrian Smith.

On comp.unix.questions, in <d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, "Bob" wrote:

This post says "Re:" but has no parent reference.

I checked out the alias "Bob" at:

[url]http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search[/url]

It says you have posted 6322 times this month alone.

Bye.

<snip>

AC

--
If you posted to me, and I didn't reply to your post, it is
because I didn't read it. If I didn't read it, I won't be reading
any responses to it either.

Thankyou for that very insightful bit or research. Unfortunately it doesn't
help me with my problem. Never mind at least now i know that people called
'Bob' have posted 6322 times!! Fascinating.

"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
news:neLee.6440$GQ5.953@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...[color=blue]
> On comp.unix.questions, in[/color]
<d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, "Bob" wrote:[color=blue]
>
> This post says "Re:" but has no parent reference.
>
> I checked out the alias "Bob" at:
>
> [url]http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search[/url]
>
> It says you have posted 6322 times this month alone.
>
> Bye.
>
> <snip>
>
> AC
>
> --
> If you posted to me, and I didn't reply to your post, it is
> because I didn't read it. If I didn't read it, I won't be reading
> any responses to it either.[/color]

On comp.unix.questions, in <neLee.6440$GQ5.953@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Alan Connor" wrote:[color=blue]
>
>
> On comp.unix.questions, in <d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, "Bob" wrote:
>
> This post says "Re:" but has no parent reference.
>
> I checked out the alias "Bob" at:
>
> [url]http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search[/url]
>
> It says you have posted 6322 times this month alone.
>
> Bye.
>
><snip>
>
> AC
>
> --
> If you posted to me, and I didn't reply to your post, it is
> because I didn't read it. If I didn't read it, I won't be reading
> any responses to it either.[/color]

""Bob""

I don't read the posts of trolls, once I have identified them.

Think and post anything you wish. I can ignore an infinite
number of posts.

The Usenet is being destroyed by assholes like you, who
hide behind common aliases that make it impossible
to review their posting history.

And change aliases all of the time to evade people's killfiles.

Won't work with me.

I am TELLING you, right now, to shut your ****ing mouth,
and you will keep it shut in my presence. I guarantee it.

Morph to your heart's desire. If your new alias doesn't have
a posting history, or is a common name, I just won't read
your posts.

(scripts do this for me, automatically, it isn't any work at
all)

If you are totally new to the Usenet, which I doubt very much,
then pick a unique alias (which includes the address on your
From line: It isn't that one that counts; it's the Reply-To
address or, if you are smart, a munged address in your sig.)

Check to see if the alias has been taken at:

[url]http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search[/url]

And stick with it. That includes keeping the same address on
your From line.

You will find that I am not alone in being fed up with the
trolls who are destroying the Usenet.

Look like a troll, and you will be treated like one.

Don't **** with your From line at all. No quotes or
or non-printing or non-ascii characters or anything
but a-zA-Z0-9. Except for an address in <> or a
name in ().

If someone plugs your From header contents into the above
URL on the Author line, and it comes back as having no
posting history because it is too screwed up for google
to deal with, then YOU are history.

I access two different newsservers (one just to read from).

One of them, the read-only one, has 10X the posts of Earthlink,
for many groups, because Earthlink has learned to dump a lot of
troll posts.

I have verified that it is only trolls that are being dumped
by Earthlink.

(or people that are following the examples set by trolls, and
thus are too stupid to bother talking with anyway)

And this trend will continue.

AC


--
If you posted to me, and I didn't reply to your post, it is
because I didn't read it. If I didn't read it, I won't be reading
any responses to it either.

Bob wrote:[color=blue]
> Thankyou for that very insightful bit or research. Unfortunately it doesn't
> help me with my problem. Never mind at least now i know that people called
> 'Bob' have posted 6322 times!! Fascinating.[/color]

AC is a net kook. Pay no mind to him.



--
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: [url]http://aplawrence.com[/url]

Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> writes:
[color=blue]
> I am TELLING you, right now, to shut your ****ing mouth,
> and you will keep it shut in my presence. I guarantee it.[/color]

[color=blue]
> If you are totally new to the Usenet,[/color]

8<------8<------8<------8< Crapsnip 8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------

Ah yes, the old spirit of welcome and friendliness we know and love....



Hi there Bob - afraid I can't answer your original question, but you
should be warned that Connor is _deranged_, seriously deranged. All this
tough-guy posing means nothing at all.

Hope someone comes up with an answer for you soon.

atb


Glyn

Thanks Glyn. Nice to know there are friendly people out there. Usenets a
great resource. Here's hoping somebody can help. :-)


"Glyn Millington" <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
news:86sm0wfzsd.fsf@nowhere.org...[color=blue]
> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> writes:
>[color=green]
> > I am TELLING you, right now, to shut your ****ing mouth,
> > and you will keep it shut in my presence. I guarantee it.[/color]
>
>[color=green]
> > If you are totally new to the Usenet,[/color]
>
> 8<------8<------8<------8< Crapsnip[/color]
8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------[color=blue]
>
> Ah yes, the old spirit of welcome and friendliness we know and love....
>
>
>
> Hi there Bob - afraid I can't answer your original question, but you
> should be warned that Connor is _deranged_, seriously deranged. All this
> tough-guy posing means nothing at all.
>
> Hope someone comes up with an answer for you soon.
>
> atb
>
>
> Glyn[/color]

Bob,

Why does it need to be installed on SCSI drives?

I'd try installing on a really small partition on an IDE drive, just to see
if it works.

I don't know if that vintage SCO even worked with SCSI-2. There weren't
2.1Gb drives in those days either.

Best bet is to try getting the hardware as closely configured to the 'state
of the art' from the past.


"Bob" <a@b.c> wrote in message
news:d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Could anybody help me. I have been trying to install SCO Unix
> 3.2v4.2 (old!) onto a Compact Proliant 1500 Server with a 32 Bit Wide SCSI[/color]
2[color=blue]
> Hard drive controller. I downloaded the EFS 3.18 supplement and made a new
> N1 disk. I link in a CUCHA boot time loadable driver at Boot: This[/color]
enabaled[color=blue]
> the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My problem
> is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a Unix
> partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the[/color]
language,[color=blue]
> country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-
>
> Extracting Files .......
>
> (NULL)
>
> inst4/rtsinstall failed.
>
> It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "
>
> If I reboot it end up in the same place.
>
> I cannot find out what may be wrong as the error message is less than
> helpfull.!!
>
> If anybody (with a good memory) can help me out here I would greatly
> appreciate it. I know it's an old system but it's imperative I get this
> working.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Adrian Smith.
>
>[/color]

Hi,
The Server I'm using has an embedded SCSI -2 32 bit wide controller and
two 2.1Gb drives. The 3.18 supplement for SCO 3.2v4.2 comes with a btld
driver and a new N1 disk that enables that controller to be recognised by
that version. That bit seems to work o.k. as originally it failed to see the
hard drive at all. Now it sees the drive, loads the BTLD, lets you
partition it, gets all the way through N1,N2 but just falls over with an
unhelpfull (NULL) statement when M1 is being used. I've tried to use an old
(1992) 340 Mb SCSI drive on the SCSI-1 slot on the mother board but it does
the same. The frustrating bit is, i've seen plenty of (old) posts in Usenet
of people who have SCO 3.2v4.2 running on Proliant 1500's. Can't think of a
way around this problem with disk M1 though? as the installation just stops
dead and forces you to re-boot. :-(



"Steve Foley" <steve.foley@DELETE.att.net> wrote in message
news:r9Jfe.10427$U01.3042@trnddc07...[color=blue]
> Bob,
>
> Why does it need to be installed on SCSI drives?
>
> I'd try installing on a really small partition on an IDE drive, just to[/color]
see[color=blue]
> if it works.
>
> I don't know if that vintage SCO even worked with SCSI-2. There weren't
> 2.1Gb drives in those days either.
>
> Best bet is to try getting the hardware as closely configured to the[/color]
'state[color=blue]
> of the art' from the past.
>
>
> "Bob" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> news:d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=green]
> > Hello,
> > Could anybody help me. I have been trying to install SCO Unix
> > 3.2v4.2 (old!) onto a Compact Proliant 1500 Server with a 32 Bit Wide[/color][/color]
SCSI[color=blue]
> 2[color=green]
> > Hard drive controller. I downloaded the EFS 3.18 supplement and made a[/color][/color]
new[color=blue][color=green]
> > N1 disk. I link in a CUCHA boot time loadable driver at Boot: This[/color]
> enabaled[color=green]
> > the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My[/color][/color]
problem[color=blue][color=green]
> > is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a Unix
> > partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the[/color]
> language,[color=green]
> > country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-
> >
> > Extracting Files .......
> >
> > (NULL)
> >
> > inst4/rtsinstall failed.
> >
> > It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "
> >
> > If I reboot it end up in the same place.
> >
> > I cannot find out what may be wrong as the error message is less than
> > helpfull.!!
> >
> > If anybody (with a good memory) can help me out here I would greatly
> > appreciate it. I know it's an old system but it's imperative I get this
> > working.
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Adrian Smith.
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

Can you install to an IDE drive? Is it possible your M1 disk is bad? Maybe
another device it doesn't recognize?

It's been a long time since I installed SCO. I'd start eliminating
possibilities. If it's the SCSI causing the problem, you may be able to
install to another type of drive and backup/restore to the SCSI.

"Bob" <a@b.c> wrote in message
news:d5nsdg$on2$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> The Server I'm using has an embedded SCSI -2 32 bit wide controller[/color]
and[color=blue]
> two 2.1Gb drives. The 3.18 supplement for SCO 3.2v4.2 comes with a btld
> driver and a new N1 disk that enables that controller to be recognised by
> that version. That bit seems to work o.k. as originally it failed to see[/color]
the[color=blue]
> hard drive at all. Now it sees the drive, loads the BTLD, lets you
> partition it, gets all the way through N1,N2 but just falls over with an
> unhelpfull (NULL) statement when M1 is being used. I've tried to use an[/color]
old[color=blue]
> (1992) 340 Mb SCSI drive on the SCSI-1 slot on the mother board but it[/color]
does[color=blue]
> the same. The frustrating bit is, i've seen plenty of (old) posts in[/color]
Usenet[color=blue]
> of people who have SCO 3.2v4.2 running on Proliant 1500's. Can't think of[/color]
a[color=blue]
> way around this problem with disk M1 though? as the installation just[/color]
stops[color=blue]
> dead and forces you to re-boot. :-(
>
>
>
> "Steve Foley" <steve.foley@DELETE.att.net> wrote in message
> news:r9Jfe.10427$U01.3042@trnddc07...[color=green]
> > Bob,
> >
> > Why does it need to be installed on SCSI drives?
> >
> > I'd try installing on a really small partition on an IDE drive, just to[/color]
> see[color=green]
> > if it works.
> >
> > I don't know if that vintage SCO even worked with SCSI-2. There weren't
> > 2.1Gb drives in those days either.
> >
> > Best bet is to try getting the hardware as closely configured to the[/color]
> 'state[color=green]
> > of the art' from the past.
> >
> >
> > "Bob" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> > news:d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=darkred]
> > > Hello,
> > > Could anybody help me. I have been trying to install SCO[/color][/color][/color]
Unix[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > 3.2v4.2 (old!) onto a Compact Proliant 1500 Server with a 32 Bit Wide[/color][/color]
> SCSI[color=green]
> > 2[color=darkred]
> > > Hard drive controller. I downloaded the EFS 3.18 supplement and made a[/color][/color]
> new[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > N1 disk. I link in a CUCHA boot time loadable driver at Boot: This[/color]
> > enabaled[color=darkred]
> > > the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My[/color][/color]
> problem[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a Unix
> > > partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the[/color]
> > language,[color=darkred]
> > > country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-
> > >
> > > Extracting Files .......
> > >
> > > (NULL)
> > >
> > > inst4/rtsinstall failed.
> > >
> > > It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "
> > >
> > > If I reboot it end up in the same place.
> > >
> > > I cannot find out what may be wrong as the error message is less than
> > > helpfull.!!
> > >
> > > If anybody (with a good memory) can help me out here I would greatly
> > > appreciate it. I know it's an old system but it's imperative I get[/color][/color][/color]
this[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > working.
> > >
> > > Many Thanks
> > >
> > > Adrian Smith.
> > >
> > >[/color]
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

Bob,
I feel your pain. I've been working to reload SVR3 on an Intel
architecture machine for a year now. I have the system installed and all I
don't have is LP (install disk X1 I hear). Anyways, I have several other
disks (including M1) and a tape (which seems to have most of the OS on it).
I am in no way an expert on SCO (I never even used it before taking on this
recovery project) but if I can be of any help, let me know.

P.S. I hope you've already solved your dilemma, but I know how long these
things can linger on.
"Bob" <a@b.c> wrote in message
news:d5fonh$fk$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Could anybody help me. I have been trying to install SCO Unix
> 3.2v4.2 (old!) onto a Compact Proliant 1500 Server with a 32 Bit Wide SCSI
> 2
> Hard drive controller. I downloaded the EFS 3.18 supplement and made a new
> N1 disk. I link in a CUCHA boot time loadable driver at Boot: This
> enabaled
> the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My problem
> is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a Unix
> partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the
> language,
> country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-
>
> Extracting Files .......
>
> (NULL)
>
> inst4/rtsinstall failed.
>
> It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "
>
> If I reboot it end up in the same place.
>
> I cannot find out what may be wrong as the error message is less than
> helpfull.!!
>
> If anybody (with a good memory) can help me out here I would greatly
> appreciate it. I know it's an old system but it's imperative I get this
> working.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Adrian Smith.
>
>[/color]

Bob wrote:[color=blue]
> the older version of Unix to see my 2.1Gb Drive and controller. My problem
> is that on installation it sees the drive o.k., lets me make a *Unix
> partition, /u filesystem etc. Accepts the N1 and N2 disks set the*
> language,
> country and so on..... BUT when I put in the M1 disk, it says :-
>
> Extracting Files .......
>
> (NULL)
>
> inst4/rtsinstall failed.
>
> It then proceeds to "Press Any Key to Re-boot. "
>
> If I reboot it end up in the same place.[/color]

3 things jump out at me and these are just wild guesses -

1) have you been able to or do you have a way of determining that you M1 disk
is in fact still good since you are getting the NULL response,

2) could it be you are pushing the 2gb limit which I believe was in affect on
that age SCO Unix. My 3.2v4.2 systems are less that 2gb so can't tell you for
sure what the limit was,

3) Is is possible the size of your disk drive or the geometry or are you by any
change making it a dual boot machine causing you to need biosgeom as part of
the boot parameters.

bk

Curt wrote:[color=blue]
> architecture machine for a year now. *I have the system installed and all I*
> don't have is LP (install disk X1 I hear). *Anyways, I have several other*[/color]

Which version - I have a 3.2v4.2 Open Desktop/Open Server Development system
full set. But I don't see any Xn diskettes. On min I have the N1 and N2 then
the M1 and then I have P1 thru P43. This would have installed the full OS and
since I have an lp that would have been installed as well.

How did you install yours - I am sure there must be more missing than just lp
since lp is just one of many programs for working with the printer and
spoolers.

The development disks for my system are simply numbered 1 to 28 with no letter
but they would not include the lp as that would be part of the OS.

bk