[CentOS] SCO 7.1 on full virtualization mode

Tue Aug 12 12:47:01 UTC 2008
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

lingu schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>   I am trying to install  SCO 7.1 on Centos 5.2 in full virtualization 
> mode.


That's the strangest thing I've seen in a while, I must admit.


> But the installation requires booting from a floppy drive provide in 
> the SCO CD.
>
>     I tried different ways to attach floppy drive to the guest.I even 
> tried providing floppy image as a drive to the guest but guest is not 
> booting from floppy.
>
>  It will be more helpful if any one help me to get this installed .
>

I  guess it wants to access the hardware directly, which might be a 
problem in a Xen environment.

Try VMware (workstation or server) to see if it makes any difference.



cheers,
Rainer