Re: A move from sco 3.2 to linux

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yashpal,

I'd go with RH 6.2, but that's because I believe the 7.0 is a piece of
cr*p.  RH ships their kernel with iBCS included by default, so you
shouldn't have problems with that aspect; something like modprobe iBCS
should do the trick.

I'd suggest looking for driver info in the kernel source directories.
Try a make menuconfig in the kernel source directory, which will give
you options for all the serial boards the kernel supports.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Yashpal" == Yashpal Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Yashpal> Hi Raj, which one would be better Redhat 6.2 or RH7.0 ??
    Yashpal> I am asking from old hardwares point of view or shud i
    Yashpal> recompile the kernel??  Also what to do for iBCS
    Yashpal> compatibilty ? does it comes default? and if possible
    Yashpal> give me any link which gives drivers info?

    Yashpal> Regards,

    Yashpal> Yash

    Yashpal> Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote--- Hi Yashpal,

    Yashpal> You shouldn't have any problems with migration.  FoxBase
    Yashpal> for SCO should run under iBCS (the Intel compatibility
    Yashpal> module available for Linux, which manages to run most
    Yashpal> SVR4/SCO programs without any problems) and you can buy
    Yashpal> 8/16-port serial cards for Linux quite cheap.  If you're
    Yashpal> lucky, you may even be able to pull your multiport card
    Yashpal> out of your SCO box and plug it into Linux.  Have a look
    Yashpal> at the multiport drivers in the kernel.

    Yashpal> Regards,

    Yashpal> -- Raju

>>>>> "Yashpal" == Yashpal Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Yashpal> Hi!  Friends, One of my colleague want some assistance on
    Yashpal> moving from sco sytem V (3.2) to linux in some
    Yashpal> Govt. department the scenerio is...  1. one sco
    Yashpal> server(486) connected to 8 dumb terminals, all these
    Yashpal> boots from this only server.  2.foxbase programes are
    Yashpal> running on sco server.  Now my questions are...  Were
    Yashpal> linux server will be able to boot these dumb terminals ??
    Yashpal> and what are the probability for running these foxbase
    Yashpal> programes will they run on linux machines without any R&D
    Yashpal> etc ??  please assist

    Yashpal> Regards,

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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/