The 'oldest' I have is a set of SCO UNIX 3.2V4.0 and V4.2 Mail me if you're interested Cheers, rudi

I seem to have CD and floppy images for SCO 2.1. drwxr-xr-x 2 corey 1002 4096 Feb 3 2006 ./ drwxr-xr-x 27 corey 1002 20480 Feb 24 09:13 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 corey 1002 156 Oct 9 2006 README -rwxr--r-- 1 corey 1002 564658176 Feb 2 2006 SCO-2.1-CD.iso* -rwxr--r-- 1 corey 1002 1474560 Feb 3 2006 hba.dd* -rwxr--r-- 1 corey 1002 1474560 Feb 3 2006 id.dd* -rwxr--r-- 1 corey 1002 1474560 Feb 3 2006 niu1.dd* -rwxr--r-- 1 corey 1002 1474560 Feb 3 2006 niu2.dd* I'm happy to provide them if anyone is interested. --corey

For anyone interested, the SCO 2.1 images are available for download here: http://lod.com/sco A few things: 1. I am having some difficulty getting it to install in VMWare ESXi 5. The floppy image boots, and I get some way into the install process, but SCO install does not see the virtual CD-ROM drive. Thus, I'm presented with network install options only. At this point, there are a few options: (a) Track down the driver and/or VMWare settings to fix the CD-ROM visibility, and proceed with the install. (b) Set up a SCO network install server, and proceed. (c) Try the install on legacy physical hardware instead. Of course, your experience may differ. 2. There's actually an installation guide available for this OS here: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/upd211/eng211.txt As well as a lot of driver updates and other good stuff: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/ 3. Anyone who wants to try SCO for the first time may find 5.0.7 a much easier go. It will install directly from CD in VMWare, and there is more driver support for it. To me, it has a very "pure" UNIX feel to it, other than the gratuitous and absurd use of symbolic links all over the file system. If you're interested in trying-out that version, let me know and I'll put up those images for download too. Regards, --corey

I've been trying this myself today, both on ESXi 6.0U2, and I went and installed ESXi 5.0 as a guest under 6.0U2 :) I notice that when I put the CD as IDE 1:0 (bus 1, master) it doesn't find it. When I put it as 0:0 (bus 0, master), it hangs loading the IDE driver. I suspect it doesn't know about bus 1, so it doesn't hang but also doesn't find it, and there's something wrong with either VMware's implementation of IDE, or SCO's handling of it - or both. I've read where lots of devices in VMware are just to "perfect" for some device drivers to deal with. One glaring example was you couldn't use the LSI SAS driver with Solaris 11. It would either hang or panic, I forget which. Switch to LSI Parallel SCSI, and it was fine. Anyway, I suspect that there's something in the IDE driver that's ignoring bus1, and hanging with VMware's implementation of it. I'm going to try installing ESXi 4.0 and see what happens. On another note, it's possible I just need to install the hard drive as IDE from the get-go, have the CDROM as slave on bus 0 and see what happens. Any pointers? thanks! art k.

Cory Smelosky wrote: I believe VirtualBox crashed at about the same point as qemu.

On 2017 Feb 27, 14:59, Arthur Krewat wrote: I've been trying this myself today, both on ESXi 6.0U2, and I went and installed ESXi 5.0 as a guest under 6.0U2 :) I notice that when I put the CD as IDE 1:0 (bus 1, master) it doesn't find it. When I put it as 0:0 (bus 0, master), it hangs loading the IDE driver. I suspect it doesn't know about bus 1, so it doesn't hang but also doesn't find it, and there's something wrong with either VMware's implementation of IDE, or SCO's handling of it - or both. I've read where lots of devices in VMware are just to "perfect" for some device drivers to deal with. One glaring example was you couldn't use the LSI SAS driver with Solaris 11. It would either hang or panic, I forget which. Switch to LSI Parallel SCSI, and it was fine. Anyway, I suspect that there's something in the IDE driver that's ignoring bus1, and hanging with VMware's implementation of it. I'm going to try installing ESXi 4.0 and see what happens. On another note, it's possible I just need to install the hard drive as IDE from the get-go, have the CDROM as slave on bus 0 and see what happens. Any pointers? thanks! art k. > On 2/27/2017 12:12 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > Corey Lindsly wrote: >>> Count me in. I put my hand up for a copy of SCO when they were >>> offering free >>> samplers in the early 2000s, but never heard back from them. >>> >>> I wanted to compare it with Linux ... >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Wesley Parish >> >> For anyone interested, the SCO 2.1 images are available for download >> here: >> >> http://lod.com/sco >> >> A few things: >> >> 1. I am having some difficulty getting it to install in VMWare ESXi >> 5. The >> floppy image boots, and I get some way into the install process, but SCO >> install does not see the virtual CD-ROM drive. Thus, I'm presented with >> network install options only. At this point, there are a few options: >> >> (a) Track down the driver and/or VMWare settings to fix the CD-ROM >> visibility, and proceed with the install. >> >> (b) Set up a SCO network install server, and proceed. >> >> (c) Try the install on legacy physical hardware instead.

On 3/1/2017 5:45 PM, Josh Good wrote: I got it to install successfully, in VMware Server 1.0.2. The solution is to boot normally with the "id.dd" floppy image provided by Corey Lindsly, with the ISO image also provided by Corey configured as IDE 0:1 (first channel, slave), and with a virtual IDE disk (I'm using 8 GB of size) as 0:0 (first channel, master). This setup leads to the already known IDE driver hanging. It's a problem with the IDE driver provided by SCO with UnixWare 2.1. So, when the install process asks whether you want to use a "HBA diskette", load into your PC emulator's virtual floppy drive the updated "HBA diskette" image provided by SCO for UnixWare 2.1.3, which is here: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/upd213/hba213.img This will stop the UnixWare 2.1 IDE driver from hanging, and the install process will proceed successfully to completion. It should work equally well in VirtualBox. Regards,

Erase the year and replace it with 99 and you can proceed. Or at least I could... Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2017, at 15:06, Arthur Krewat &lt;krewat(a)kilonet.net <mailto:krewat@kilonet.net>> wrote: > In ESXi 5.0, using the updated HBA driver diskette, I got to this > point and it locked up apparently (see below). Gotta love Y2K > > <nhcellemnelfkmhb.png> > > On 3/1/2017 5:45 PM, Josh Good wrote: >> I got it to install successfully, in VMware Server 1.0.2. >> The solution is to boot normally with the "id.dd" floppy image provided >> by Corey Lindsly, with the ISO image also provided by Corey configured >> as IDE 0:1 (first channel, slave), and with a virtual IDE disk (I'm >> using 8 GB of size) as 0:0 (first channel, master). >> >> This setup leads to the already known IDE driver hanging. It's a >> problem with the IDE driver provided by SCO with UnixWare 2.1. So, >> when the install process asks whether you want to use a "HBA diskette", >> load into your PC emulator's virtual floppy drive the updated "HBA >> diskette" image provided by SCO for UnixWare 2.1.3, which is here: >> ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/upd213/hba213.img >> >> This will stop the UnixWare 2.1 IDE driver from hanging, and the >> install process will proceed successfully to completion. >> >> It should work equally well in VirtualBox. >> >> Regards, >> >

I got it to install successfully, in VMware Server 1.0.2. The solution is to boot normally with the "id.dd" floppy image provided by Corey Lindsly, with the ISO image also provided by Corey configured as IDE 0:1 (first channel, slave), and with a virtual IDE disk (I'm using 8 GB of size) as 0:0 (first channel, master). This setup leads to the already known IDE driver hanging. It's a problem with the IDE driver provided by SCO with UnixWare 2.1. So, when the install process asks whether you want to use a "HBA diskette", load into your PC emulator's virtual floppy drive the updated "HBA diskette" image provided by SCO for UnixWare 2.1.3, which is here: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/UW21/upd213/hba213.img This will stop the UnixWare 2.1 IDE driver from hanging, and the install process will proceed successfully to completion. It should work equally well in VirtualBox. Regards, -- Josh Good

Regards, --corey