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Thank you so very much for your patience with me and for your time. I will let you know what happens.

However a CD or DVD will not do. A complete back up is going to be over 300GB and we are having to us a tape backup. How is this going to work since we can not longer boot off of a CD?

I am assuming that the current tape drive is SCSI.
After you have done the backup on the old system, remove the tape drive and scsi host adapter, and install it in the new system.
Do the restore to from the tape.
If however, the SCSI host adapter is built into the motherboard, or is a ISA, EISA etc card that will not install in the new system, you can still copy the data across the network after you have created the new system.
Also, assuming that the 300gb is uncompressed data. You would need about 15 dual layer dvd's to do the copy.

Attachment 1631We already had a copy of Microlite on the server too. It was version 2.0 though. it made four boot disks. We installed the tape to the destination machine and booted off the discs. We used an optiplex 320L with 1 GB RAm but it kept crashing. We booted it up to 2GB and it got to the 2nd disk and did like a BSOD but UNIX version.

Is the microlite 2.0 version too old to do this? Could it also be that this PC is all USB for keyboard and mouse or am I just way off base.

Here is a PIC.

If there are standard PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, I would try that first.
Second, do a fresh install of Unixware (practice run) to see if there will be any problems.
If the disk controller in the old machine is not the same as the disk controller in the new machine, you may have a problem with the emergency boot diskettes. I have never tried this with Unixware, only Open Server. It may be neccessary to do a fresh install, install microlite, and just restore the non root file systems.

Here is a pic of the error.

My guess is that it can't find the RAID controller. Will the old system boot from the Microlite boot diskettes. You should get a MSDOS style drop down menu if you are successful.