Re: RH Linux 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36, SCSI Disks => VM? + Nostalgia . .

[Philip Rhoades]

Samuel,

On 2016-10-02 11:54, [e-mail] wrote:
> From: Samuel Sieb 
> Subject: Re: RH Linux 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36, SCSI Disks => VM? +
>    Nostalgia . .
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
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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.