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.