SCO TCP/IP Install *MAJOR* problem: HELP!

[Ben Taylor]

s892024 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden) writes:

>It seems today is not my day for installing new software. At any rate the
>problem is that after installing SCO Streams Runtime and SCO TCP/IP
>Runtime System. The kernel had been relinked after installing SCO TCP/IP
>and I rebooted the system as stated in the docs in order to install the
>ethernet card driver (3comB - 3C503 card). This worked OK. Then I installed
>the driver and relinked the kernel. When I rebooted the system it would get
>to the point just before the copyright notice and REBOOT!! I had to get
>the system up by running /usr/sys/conf/xenix ! So then I removed the
>driver and this continued. Now I have removed TCP/IP and have got the
>system running normally again. 

You don't say what kind of computer you have, but it sounds like you
have been bitten by the boot problem which occurs when the boot 
program cannot load a kernel bigger than 640k.  I had an old Compaq
386/16 that experienced the same problem.

>Has this happened to anyone else? If so what did you do? If not, does 
>anyone have any idea what could have caused it. The only thing that
>I could possibly think the cause was that the 3C503 card's memory was
>enabled. Should this be disabled for the system to work?

You need to get the Xenix Support Level Supplement xnx126 from sosco.
It is called the Delay Boot supplement.

BTW, the shared memory is not used in the Xenix version of TCP/IP.

>I would apprieciate any help you could give with this matter because
>I am dying to get TCP/IP running.

I died trying to get it running consistently.  It crashed regulary, 
ftp had some amazing bugs which were reproducable but SCO claimed 
they couldn't reproduce them, and sendmail is a joke.  It's an old
version, the configuration script can only handle one or two different
major network types, and SCO DOESN'T support it.  "It's only there
to fill out the TCP package." {sic}   We sent it back.

>-Richard Muirden.
>(s892024 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au)

Ben Taylor
Systems Administrator
LCC Inc.
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