UnixWare 7 Install
 

Current System Configuration :

Special note : Only the ISA card is recognized by system at this point

Now the fun stuff :

  • Insert floppy 1, and CD and restart Server.  (Bios must be set for bootable floppy first, then CD.
  • Proceed in English.
  • Insert 2nd diskette  (F1 = Help,    F10 = Next,   F9 = Previous)
  • American Zone, F10
  • C (English) Locale, F10
  • US Keyboard, F10
  • F8 to defer licensing and get 60 day evalulation, unless you have a license
  • Yes to confirm, Enter
  • F10 to go without HBA
  • Dont do DCU
  • NodeName : Gemini
  • Install from CDRom, F10
  • Customize File Systems
    • Disk setup parameters for my 3.0 Gig drive  :
      Slice Name                        Slice Type                    Slice Size
    / vxfs 700 Mb
    /stand bfs 20 Mb
    /dev/swap slice 256 Mb
    /dev/dump slice 128 Mb
    /home vxfs 150 Mb
    /home2 off
    /var vxfs 200 Mb
    /tmp memfs 10 Mb
    /var/tmp memfs 40 Mb
    /dev/volprivate slice 1 Mb
    All others remain default
      I could not install the following packages.  They all had to be installed after the machine booted to its own unix, and then there were no problems at all.  These are the problems :
  • Fast Track 2.01a
  • Unixware man pages
  • Unixware documentation
  • SCO ArcServe
    • After all of that, there are some more options to choose , like the gui settings and some other additional settings to set.  Here they are :
  • PS/2 - 2 button mouse
  • As root, (very important), run scoadmin, then choose networking, and finally network configuration manager.  Then add the 3c509b adapter.  This was part of the problem in the first place with the networking, and may have cause my package loading problem, as all of the above packages require networking.
  • As root, (very important),  run scoadmin, then choose system and then video.  setup the settings.
  • Reboot.
  • Use scoadmin to add the packages that were problematic, now that networking and video work.  choose software and then installation manager.
  • Update View
  • Choose ArcServe (Select Yes for all)
  • Choose BaseWeb (Select yes for all)
  • Choose Doc (Select Yes for all)
  • Reboot
  • login as root and check the routes.  They should be all setup, because the network is up now.
  • Get the hosts file from another machine, like solaris or comet.
  • Setup proxy in netscape.

    • I am currently getting a message that says :
    WARNING : atapi_protocol : Sent Packet cmd, ATS_BUSY doesnt go off

    Now for the standard stuff :

    Last, but VERY important step, is for 4mm DAT SCSI tape drive machines. You must install the ptf7074a patch for this. It is available at the SCO Web site, just search for ptf7074a. Its real name is "SLS ptf7074a: st01, sc01, and mc01 Driver Supplement" so that will be the one you need. This absolves the need for my fix_tape.sh script that we used to use to unload and reload the kernel drivers.

    And ALWAYS make a backup.
     

    Update : 09/04/1999.
    Finally installed samba, version 2.0.5a, instead of VisionFS as shipped with UnixWare7. The Vision product was causing me too many problems, possibly due to my lack of use with it. All other Unix machines I have, use the Samba utility, so we are also now consistent. The new version 2.0 also contains a web admin utility.

    To install, I did the following :