On 09/30/2016 02:40 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
It was a little strange but pleasant looking at all this very old stuff
- knowing with hindsight how the users, lists and sites developed after
their modest beginnings. I guess I got a bit nostalgic and decided to
continue to keep the box (it is the only old box I have that can
accommodate the old Adaptec ISA board) but it occurred to me that it
would be an interesting exercise to try and virtualise the system - is
this possible? - could I create an image from the old 2GB SCSI boot disk
and run it as a virtual machine somehow?
Shouldn't be a problem. The only issue would be whether the installed
OS has a driver for the emulated scsi drive. If you used the emulated
IDE instead, you would need to mount the image (or drive) locally and
edit the fstab to change the /dev/sd* entries to /dev/hd*. I expect the
bootloader would be LILO which I think uses BIOS calls to load the OS,
so that should work.
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