Years ago I had the 5.25" installation floppies and the important yellow slips of paper with the authorisation keys to install the operating system and various extensions
Sadly I tossed them when I moved to FreeBSD. Nowadays - I wonder how useful the installers would be without the licence / activation keys? Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: d...@doughq.com ph: 0414 986878 Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net On Fri, 4 Aug 2023 at 10:29, jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On 8/3/23 13:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote: > > My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10. > I'd be curious given the nature of SCO if anyone has posted the goods to > install any of them, and what versions. > > That aside, as mentioned by Grant, the system then was broken down with > so many bits and pieces with different tariffs on the parts that it was > a bitch to get one running. Not only was Linux "free" to get early on, > but it didn't screw with holding back anything. Not to mention you were > on your own to fix stuff and contribute to the effort. > > I don't know how many engineers SCO had working on support, but once > Linux took off there were a lot working on it, and later a lot of > resources to ask for help and support, vs. sending a bug report or > support request down the black hole at SCO. > > I'd certainly try virtualbox, vmware and QEMU to see if it ran. I'm > still playing with the latter to get guest networking going, and with > older NICs on old SCO distributions, you may have some challenges having > support. But the 3M controllers seemed to be a hardware universal > device pre virtualization, and I'd hope any i386 virtualization would > still have support. > > I still have boxes with hopefully SCO install goods, but haven't looked > into getting them running in a long time. > thanks > Jim > >
