SCO OpenServer 6 provides two editions to customers, including Enterprise Edition and Starter Edition. For the basic hardware requirement for OSR6, please check the following below :
Hardware Requirement for SCO OpenServer 6 Installation:
| Hardware |
Minimum Requirement |
Suggested |
Maximum Supported Hardware |
| Processor |
IntelR Celeron(R), Pentium(R), Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon, Pentium 4, or Intel Xeon, or Intel-compatible processors, e.g. AMD Athlon(TM), Athlon 64, Duron(TM), Sempron(TM), or Opteron(TM) |
Pentium P4 |
32 CPUs |
| Memory |
64MB, 128MB(Xwindow) |
256MB |
64GB |
| Disk Space |
4GB |
8GB |
1TB(per disk) |
| HBA |
IDE |
SCSI, SATA |
1024 |
SCO OpenServer 6 Edition:
|
Starter Edition |
Enterprise Edition |
| Users |
2 |
10 |
| Memory |
1GB |
4GB |
| Processor Number |
1 |
4 |
OS Installation Steps
Please boot the system with OSR6 CD, just press ENTER after seeing Boot prompt.
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System will show the license, please press ENTER.
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System tells the function keys definition during OS installation, please press ENTER.
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Accept or Decline the OS license agreement, please choose "Accept".
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System asks if other HBA driver is necessary? Please choose according to the situation.
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System shows the loaded HBA drivers, please press ENTER.
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To choose the installation methods, please choose "Installation from CD-ROM"
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To choose the keyboard mapping, please use the default configuration.
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To Input License Information
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System Configuration. Customer should set system name, domain name, and Time Zone. Other configurations are depending on customers' environment. After system name and domain name are configured, please enter Time Zone configuration.
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For instance, you can choose Asia -> Taiwan Standard Time, if you are located in Taiwan. Then choose "Accept" and go back the previous screen.
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Go back the system configuration screen, and choose "Accept" to continue.
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Setup the hard drive, and choose the installation packages. Generally speaking, customers just need to setup the hard drive configuration.
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After entering hard drive configuration, please do according to the situation.
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Then setup the partition, if nothing special, please just accept the default configuration.
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Setup the filesystem size, and allocation. Accept the default values unless special situation.
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Hard drive option, please accept default value.
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Go back to previous screen
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Go back to previous screen
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Configure network, Xwindow, Mouse..etc.
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Configure the TCP/IP setup.
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Go back to previous screen, mouse is detected automatically, and suggested to use Sendmail mail system.
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Set the root password
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Final installation confirmation. System can begin to install.
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The regular OS installation on Pentium 4 system may need 50 minutes.
After OS is installed, please check : or for latest SCO OS fix, e.g. Maintenance Pack.
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