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3.2v4.2 boot disk images

From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: getting "incorrect tape volume" on install...
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:55:20 GMT
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Thom Price wrote:

Thom>>> Hi, folks.  Trying to install 3.2 v4.2 via 3.5" N1, N2, and M1 plus
Thom>>> QIC tape in internal Archive drive, as I've done before.  N1 diskette
Thom>>> wouldn't boot.  I remembered a post here about the newer images for
Thom>>> those 3 diskettes that I had previously d'loaded from SCO's FTP site.

Bela>> ms101 is Maintenance Supplement MSv4.1, which is older than 3.2v4.2.
Bela>> 
Bela>> According to http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_downloadboot.html, you can
Bela>> probably use one of:
Bela>> 
Bela>>   ftp://stage.sco.com/SLS/uod383bun1.Z
Bela>>   ftp://stage.sco.com/SLS/uod429a.Z
Bela>> 
Bela>> Download both, make images of both, try 429 first.

Thom> However, it sill errors out "incorrect tape volume", with either tape.
Thom>  (the label *does* say 4.2v4.2)

I hope you mean "3.2v4.2".

Back then we had a different tape for every possible combination; in
particular, an ODT tape was very different from a Unix tape.  I'm not
sure whether they can be used with interchangable boot disks, or whether
the boot disk is directly tied to the tape.

Thom> I'm only trying the new images 'cos my old N1 is dead - bad block(s)
Thom> reported, so I tried uod429a.
Thom> 
Thom> I guess I'll now try the uod383bun1.Z, to see if that'll work.  I
Thom> can't believe neither works.  I may have to try booting another
Thom> version somewhere, adding the tape drive, then finding the original
Thom> images to drop onto floppies.

I'm not sure there _are_ images of those floppies on the correspondign
tape.  We didn't get that clue until we moved completely to CDs, which
have more space and don't force you to read everything on the media.

Thom> Thanks for the response!  And thanks for the info on the MS101 disks. 
Thom> I'll archive those - no good to me, at present.  Is there another
Thom> place to get the original images for 4.2 on the SCO/Caldera site now?

MSv4.2 is at ftp://stage.sco.com/Supplements/msv42/.  It won't help
you because it's just an installable supplement, it has no full boot
disk.  (Its first disk is a boot-only disk -- it will get you as far as
the "Boot:" prompt, at which point you have to swap in a full boot disk.
Actually, that _might_ help you if the only bad sectors on your original
boot disk were in the early going -- might as well give it a try.)

>Bela<
 

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