[ale] HOWTO->burn a 'bootable' CD for an old sco OS

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue May 11 11:32:16 EDT 1999


On Mon, 10 May 1999, Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Greetings again !
> 
> I have installed a romburner using Xcdroast under RedHat5.2 and would like
> to make a CD of an installed SCO OS->3.2v.4.2 which originally came on
> about 50 floppies. What I want to do is reinstall so I'll have a virginal
> CD copy.
> 
> Question:
> How do I make this bootable CD of the SCO OS ?
>  
> What command sequence will do it ?
> Do you recommend using other than xcdroast ? Why ?
> 

If I remember right, SCO uses a crazy file system for CDs, so you're
probably out of luck.  I could be remembering incorrectly, though, as it's
been years since I touched the stuff....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
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