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sco osr5.0.7 on older compaq

From belal@sco.com Mon Sep  8 07:49:48 2003
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: Running OSR5.0.7 on older Compaq ProLiant
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:35:31 GMT
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Stuart J. Browne wrote:

> "Mike Brown" <mike@tkg.ca> wrote in message
> news:3F5BCE03.E42857BC@tkg.ca...
> > Thanks to Bela and JPR, here is how to run 5.0.7 on
> > an older Compaq such as the 800/1200/1500/1600/2500 series
> > servers.  In other words all pre-CASM servers that
> > require EFS5.48 or earlier.
> >
> > Load 5.0.7 and patches such as MP1.
> >
> > #cd /etc/conf/pack.d/pci
> > #cp -p Driver.o Driver.o.orig
> > strings -a -o Driver.o | grep -i debug
> > 18782 pci_debug
> > # echo pci_Debug | dd bs=1 count=9 oseek=18782 conv=notrunc of=Driver.o
> 
> Umm, is that supposed to be a 'D' ? or a 'd'?

big 'D'.  The purpose of the patch is to rename a symbol in the OSR5 PCI
driver so that it doesn't conflict with a symbol of the same name in one
of the Compaq EFS drivers.

> > 9+0 records in
> > 9+0 records out
> > # strings -a -o Driver.o | grep -i debug
> > 18782 pci_Debug
> > # cd /etc/conf/cf.d
> > # ./link_unix
> >
> > Reboot, then load EFS5.48 as usual.

Here's a script that does this more safely and automatically.

>Bela<

DIR=/etc/conf/pack.d/pci
cd $DIR

set -- `strings -a -o Driver.o | grep -i ' pci_debug$'`

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  echo $DIR/Driver.o does not require patching.
  exit 0
fi

if [ $2 = pci_Debug ]; then
  echo $DIR/Driver.o is already patched.
  exit 0
fi

if [ -f Driver.o.orig ]; then
  echo $DIR/Driver.o.orig already exists, aborting. 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

cp -p Driver.o Driver.o.orig

if echo pci_Debug | dd bs=1 count=9 oseek=$1 conv=notrunc of=Driver.o 2>/dev/null; then
  echo $DIR/Driver.o successfully patched.
  exit 0
else
  echo $DIR/Driver.o was not successfully patched. 1>&2
  mv -f Driver.o.orig Driver.o
  exit 1
fi
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