What Version of SCO to install in my Laptop

[bmayo]

I need to where to get the SCO in order to install on my
laptop and also what version will be best????

 

[edfair]

What are you going to do with it? Any specific applications software that will lock you into a product?
Later versions take more space and are more complicated.
For educational purposes I'd stay with 3.2v4.2 as it will load off floppies. If you have a cdrom that is recognized by SCO you could consider open server. Possibly 5.0.2 or 5.0.4. Both available reasonably on e-bay.
But be aware that the product may not load on your hardware. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[scooter6]

it is always a good idea to check the SCO home page
and look at their "Compatible Hardware" section...it normally has pretty good info on hardware they have tested on before

HTH

scooter6

 

[unix42]

generally any version of sco will work on a laptop as long as you have installation media for it (ie, floppies{yelch} or cdrom or tape.) The main problem that sco has with laptops is talking to pcmcia devices. some network card manufacturers claim to have drivers that will work but i have yet to get it functioning (yes even 3com). character based operations work just fine with any version, however scologin/open desktop can be a pain on some displays.

again it matters as to what you want to do with the laptop.

have fun

life, universe and everything
unix42

 

[Royt]

I have been running OS 5.0.5 in a 5Gb partition on a Umax850t (12Gb drive - the rest Win98SE) for some time, mainly character based packages although I have no problem in running X Windows (the Umax has 8M ATA graphics and 1024x768 resolution). However, as unix42 says networking is a different matter. According to SCO there is no 100M pc card that will run with OS 5.x although the Linksys pc100 will run with Unixware 7. I have failed to find any third party drivers for the Linksys for OS5.x but can communicate via ftp.

Regarding a source for the os, SCO used to offer OS5.x for "free" for private use, including the development system. Several years ago this worked out at $20 for media (CD) and p&p. I imagine they still do this, you have to register and then get the licence info.

Regards

Roy Thomas