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by md_wasiuddin

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sir,

I am trying to install sco 2.1. But I am not able create the partition in it.

I am having campaq digital system of 512MB ram and 17.5 GB HDD.

I want to create 6 partition of 3GB and
I need SWAP 1.5GB.|But in sco 2.1 its giving chanceto create only 4 partitions. so I did
only 4 partition, so I successfully install unix on my system after logging as root I am not able to see the 4 partition which I have created, only root partition I will see..
commands--
df
dfspace
du
when I use 'fdisk' command than I can see 4 partion created in HDD.

Actually I need clarify that
1.can sco 2.1 support 17.6GB
2.how to go in second parittion
3.can I give the swap 1.5GB in it

please help me its very urgent for me.

regards
wasi
E:-mail md_wasiuddin@yahoo.com

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by cavedweller

If you mentioned which of Sco's products you were using it would help a lot. Knowing which version isn't as useful as knowing which product!

I have used Sco OpenDesktop 1, 3 and the newer OpenServer 5. With each of these you can only create 4 partitions on a disk and only one of them can be active at a time. Use fdisk to create and activate a partition of the desired size.

Within the active partition you can create 7 filesystems. For an initial install on a bootable disk you do this with "divvy -i". The installation procedure helps you out by automatically running fdisk, then "divvy -i".

You can set the swap size to anything you want by manually adjusting the size of the swap division with the divvy tool. Most of the time setting the size to more than twice your RAM size is unnecessary and provides little additional benefit.

Only the newer SCO products support large filesystem divisions. Also, if you have an older PC you may need to update your BIOS before it recognizes disks >8GB. Use the BIOS setup utility and confirm that your disk has ben properly detected before you try to install SCO.

If this doesn't help please post some additional information so that someone can provide a meaningful answer.

by gazz

SCO 2.1 sounds like a unixware product. This is an older product from SCO. I do know that open server 3.1 (an older version of Open Server) did not support drives over 2 GIG. This means that not only can the patitions must be less then 2 GIG, butthe drives can not be any larger then 2GIG. The large drive just might be the problem.

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