Samuel,
On 2016-10-02 11:54, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RH Linux 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36, SCSI Disks => VM? +
Nostalgia . .
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
Do you mean if the host OS has a driver ie F25?
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*.
Not sure why I would need to be emulating IDE . .
I expect the
bootloader would be LILO
Correct.
which I think uses BIOS calls to load the OS,
so that should work.
OK, I am still at a loss as to how to proceed . . I had assumed that I
would need to do a dd of the old SCSI drive with it's 6 partitions and
create an image that I could move to my F25 workstation and from there
work out how to load into virt-manager or something . .
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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