On 11 Oct, 02:32, "Ron Kirschner" wrote:
> I have a ML350 server with no floppy, and need to get HP's EFS 770a hba
> floppy image to a cd. Is there a way to do this from a Windows XP box with
> a CD burner??

Ron,

http://www.sco.com/ta/126675

explains how to put a HBA floppy image onto CD using
an existing OpenServer or UnixWare system. The
Windows XP steps should be similar.

JOhn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kirschner"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: COPYING HP EFS770A HBA FROM FLOPPY IMAGE FILE TO CD


>I have a ML350 server with no floppy, and need to get HP's EFS 770a hba
> floppy image to a cd. Is there a way to do this from a Windows XP box
> with
> a CD burner??

If the os is already installed then you don't need a floppy or a cd or
direct access to the box.
You can marry and mount a floppy image and tell btldinstall to use the mount
point.
Or if it's more than a btld then you can marry the image, no mount, do a
little symlink smoke&mirrors with the (r)fd0135ds18 device nodes and run
custom as if there were a floppy installed.

If the os is not yet installed and you need the btld in order to do the
install, and as long as ISL allows you to swap cd's to load the btld, then
that TA jboland pointed to looks simplest.

Otherwise, it's not simple but is possible to copy and remaster the osr507
install cd (JP has done it I beleive to get a laptop installed) and it's
probably possible to use a usb floppy if the bios provides legacy usb floppy
support, the floppy would show up as an odd device number like fd(67) or
something and might take a lot of trial & error, but when I got hit with one
of these last year I just ordered the floppy kit. Even though it was $50 and
proprietary and probably only going to be used once. That TA didn't exist
yet, and the day I have to talk the remote on-site guy through something
hairy, I do NOT need to also be trying to invent exotic alternate
unsupported procedures during that crisis time to get around the lack of
floppy which all the directions anywhere assumes you have. Looking at the TA
though, I'm chagrined by how not very exotic it is. "gee crap I coulda done
that"

But I don't have to feel too bad, That machine ended up requiring a floppy
anyways because BackupEdge could not generate a bootable cd for that box
because the stuff just wouldn't fit within the 2.8 megs available on a
bootable iso fake floppy section. Apparently the configured kernel was too
large. However, BackupEdge could generate a 3 or 4 floppy set that worked.
Bizarre that you need 1.4 or 1.7 meg floppies to get more room than a 650
meg cd but there it is. I couldn't have predicted that specifically, but I
did predict exactly that in general (if that makes any sense) when I decided
to just get the floppy kit instead of trying to work without it.

Just for the sake of the archives, here is a recipe for installing (onto an
already-running box) from a floppy or iso image of a custom-install-media,
where the packages are not in VOL or pkgadd format.
Jut yesterday I wanted to install the "Linker and Libraries" package on a
very remote, already installed box, at night when no one was there on-site.
That package is only available on the main os install cd.
No VOL or pkgadd files available.
Like the TA John pointed out, it's not rocket science once you see it.

SCO - custom - Install from iso or floppy image without cd or floppy

cd /

rftp -g -bh ftp.sco.com /pub/openserver5/507/iso/OpenServer-5.0.7-July2005
OpenServer-5.0.7Hw-10Jun05_1800.iso

mv OpenServer-5.0.7Hw-10Jun05_1800.iso osr507.iso

marry -a osr507.iso
mv /dev/cd0 /dev/cd0bak
mv /dev/rcd0 /dev/rcd0bak
ln -s /dev/marry/osr507.iso /dev/cd0
cp /dev/cd0 /dev/rcd0
custom #
marry -d osr507.iso
rm /dev/cd0 /dev/rcd0
mv /dev/cd0bak /dev/cd0
mv /dev/rcd0bak /dev/rcd0


For a floppy image you'd just use fd0/rfd0 or fd0135ds18/rfd0135ds18 instead
of cd0/rcd0

If the image is just btld's you don't need custom or the symlink stuff:

marry -a imgfile
mount /dev/marry/imgfile /mnt
btldinstall /mnt
umount /mnt
marry -d imgfile


Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR
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That did the trick - thank you. I'd actually already seen this, but
assumed I had to write the cd on a Unixware box with a CD writer.


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> On 11 Oct, 02:32, "Ron Kirschner" wrote:
>> I have a ML350 server with no floppy, and need to get HP's EFS 770a hba
>> floppy image to a cd. Is there a way to do this from a Windows XP box
>> with
>> a CD burner??
>
> Ron,
>
> http://www.sco.com/ta/126675
>
> explains how to put a HBA floppy image onto CD using
> an existing OpenServer or UnixWare system. The
> Windows XP steps should be similar.
>
> JOhn
>