This guide applies to OSR 5.0.2 ONLY
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Installing OSR 5 is very straight forward and should not cause any major problems. These notes are aimed at BDS Technical Staff and not the end user. If you are an end-user and are attempting the install then this should make sense - if not don't try it. These notes should be used in association with the OSR 5 release notes supplied with the system. READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START During installing the software you will need to phone SCO during NORMAL OFFICE HOURS for a registration key. Make sure there is enough time if an re-install is needed. The complete installation and configuration will take about 2-3 hours on a P5/75 and about 4-5 hours on a 486 DX/33. Note: If there are ANY errors during the load START AGAIN, try switching OFF Internal and External cache in the BIOS during the load. If you cut corners here you may well get stuck later on. Make sure you have: OSR 5 Boot disk AHS Boot-time Loadable Drivers diskette. CD Rom Serial numbers Host / Enterprise User Licences As appropriate Latest Release Supplement Usually located on disk if setup in Edin, or on latest backup tape or an OSR 5 utility tape. SCSI Tapes should be set with an ID of 2 SCSI CD's should be set with an ID of 5 Installation for SCSI CD-ROM is easiest. Support for Extended IDE (EIDE) CD-ROM requires a slight modification to the installation process. See the EIDE CD-ROM Installation Instructions below. Only ATAPI-compliant EIDE CD-ROMs are useable. Additional, more detailed installation information is contained in these files which are readable from the CD-ROM media prior to installation: info/opensrvr/en_inst.txt = English Release and Installation Notes info/opensrvr/fr_inst.txt = French Release and Installation Notes info/opensrvr/de_inst.txt = German Release and Installation Notes Determining your system configuration for ATAPI (EIDE) CD-ROM ------------------------------------------------------------- If you are uncertain of the hardware configuration of your system, but you know that the primary hard disk is attached to an IDE controller, the following information will allow you to determine the most likely configuration. Entries for the ATAPI CD-ROM will appear in system hardware report that is onscreen after booting. Look for lines of the following form, and especially a line with the string: type=wd: %adapter 0x01f0-0x01f7 14 - type=wd ha=0 id=7 bus=0 fts=d Here, ha=0 indicates that the ATAPI CD-ROM drive is attached to the Primary IDE controller. %adapter 0x0170-0x0177 15 - type=wd ha=1 id=7 bus=0 fts=d Here, ha=1 indicates that the ATAPI CD-ROM drive is attached to the Secondary IDE controller. If there is another device attached to the IDE controler, the effective SCSI ID of the CD-ROM drive is 0 if it is configured as a Master device or 1 if it is configured as a Slave device. If the other device is the primary hard disk drive, the CD-ROM drive will normally be configured as a Slave device. If your system has a primary SCSI hard disk, the CD-ROM drive may be configured as a Master device. If there is no other device attached to the IDE controller, the CD-ROM drive should have been configured as a Master device with an effective SCSI ID of 0. NOTE: The base I/O addresses and interrupt vectors shown on your system might differ from the examples shown above. ATAPI (EIDE) CD-ROM supplemental Installation Instructions -------------------------------------------------- 1. Insert the SCO OpenServer Boot Disk into the drive. 2. Turn on your computer and wait for the Boot: prompt. 3. If your system has a primary SCSI hard disk drive attached to a SCSI controller, you must enter a "bootstring" to define this configuration. For example, if the primary hard disk drive has a SCSI ID of 0, a LUN of 0, and it is attached to the primary bus controlled by an Adaptec 2940 host adapter (which uses the alad driver), use the following bootstring: Boot: defbootstr Sdsk=alad(0,0,0,0) If you have a different SCSI host adapter, use the appropriate driver name from the following table instead of alad: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Host adapter Driver name ------------------------------------------------------------------ Adaptec 152x spad Adaptec 154x, 154x emulation, 164x ad Adaptec 174x eiad Adaptec 274x (7770 chip) arad Adaptec 2940x (7870 chip) alad Future Domain 1650, 1670, 1680, 600, 700 (1800 chip) fdha Future Domain 7000 wdha Future Domain 7000ex wdex Future Domain 845, 850, 860, 885 (950 chip) tmcha Olivetti ESC-1, ESC-2, and EFP efp Storage Plus SCSI-AT (SUMO) sumo 4. When the ``Identifying the installation media device'' screen is displayed, choose ``SCSI CD-ROM'' as the media device type (YES, even though it is EIDE). Some machines may experience hardware driver conflicts which will not allow the user to choose any SCSI media devices for installation. One way to work around this problem is to insert a supported SCSI host adapter into the system. There is no need to add any SCSI devices to this host adapter. 5. Select "wd" for the SCSI host adapter type. 6. If the CD-ROM drive is attached to the Primary IDE controller in a system with one or two IDE controllers, select 0 for the host adapter number. If the CD-ROM drive is attached to the Secondary IDE controller in a system with two IDE controllers, select 1 for the host adapter number. 7. If the CD-ROM drive is configured as a Master device, select 0 for its SCSI ID. If the CD-ROM drive is configured as a Slave device, select 1 for its SCSI ID. NOTE: A hard disk and a CD-ROM drive present on the same IDE controller are usually configured as Master and Slave devices respectively. If no hard disk drive is present on the same controller, the CD-ROM drive will usually have been configured as a Master device. 8. Select 0 for the SCSI LUN of the CD-ROM drive. 9. Select 0 for the SCSI bus number. With SCSI CD's the procedure is much easier, select the driver to use (from the above table) and enter the ID (Normally 5). Once the media has been verified you willbe prompted for: Installation Type : Fresh Site name : The machine name e.g. bdsedin, bdsl etc. Domain : Unless they are going via Service Provider then use uucp. Security : Low Timezone : No we are NOT in the states, select Europe Disk setup : Select (with <SPACE>) - Customise Swap space - At minimum 64Mb, otherwise 2 x RAM, the more the better. Bad Tracking : If you want but will add time, not normally needed for modern disks. Networking : Will be default of None unless network card installed Mouse : Select 'Microsoft Serial Mouse on Com 1' unless a different mouse being used. Mail type : MMDF (don't use sendmail ) The load of the software is automatic from this point on. If any errors occur, try a 'retry' otherwise start again. Once installed re-boot as advised. To speed things up and reduce the load, go into single user mode and disable scologin with : scologin disable If there are any additional user licences, install them via: scoadmin -> licence manager You will still need to register but this can be done at a later point. It may be easier to continue with the rest and register when install finished. Register Enterprise/User licences by visiting www.sco.com. ================================================================== Once the system is up and running: If the tape drive has not been automatically linked in you will need to run: mkdev tape Load the utility tape (tar x8) (or extract /usr/utilities and /usr/local from the most recent backup.) Install ATA software if needed. This is done via: scoadmin -> software manager -> Install new - > Media image /usr/local/images/ata5 Easy I/O etc. (Don't use ata3 on OSR5 systems). If there is a secondary filesystem then: Edit /etc/default/accounts, so that HOME_DIR points to the correct place. Add the following users via: scoadmin -> Account Manager -> users -> add new Name : admin Password : admin Name : vet Password : don't password account Give admin FULL authorisations : Highlite admin (TAB and ARROW keys) Users Authorisations Use TAB & Return Add a password to the nuucp account e.g. passwd nuucp and use the password on uucp. Run our configuration program: /usr/utilities/init.osr Edit the following files: /etc/default/tar Set correct for the size of tape. /usr/local/lib/xc/.xc Set the speed correctly /usr/lib/uucp Set Devices/Systems/Dialers etc. In order to reduce memory usage some of the start up scripts need changed, the files below reside in /etc/rc2.d, and may or may not be present on the version of OSR 5 you have. S86sendmail Add exit 0 as 2nd line P86mmdf " " S25pm " " Run the following: /usr/utilities/switchon /usr/utilities/smail.conf Install edge software if needed. This is done via: scoadmin -> software -> Install new - > Media image /usr/local/images/edge Edge is now per CPU, you will have to run Edgemenu, pick Utilities then Activate. Fill in the details, Edge is registered to the END USER so fill in the user details, printout the form and fax to Edinburgh. We will fax to States and get key which can be entered via the modem at a later date. Edge will run for 60 days without the registration key. Hardware: Use mkdev serial to add com2 if needed mkdev parallel to add parallel printer support If there is no SCSI tape then run mkdev tape to remove it from the kernal Configure the printers via: scoadmin -> printers Configure the terminals as normal via stalladm/easyadm Now install the vet system from the latest backup
Install the following supplements: