UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello. We've had quite a lot of issues with networking with our IBM server running SCO OpenServer 5.0.7. I figured it couldn't hurt to try installing a new network card in the server and see what results I get. When I go into netconfig I can see there's a fairly long list of network adapters that already seem to have their drivers installed. So I purposely ordered one that was in that list. But it seems like it would still be a good idea to install the drivers off the cd that came with the card. This is where I could use some help because I've never done anything like this with our system before.

I know you would start by using the cp command at the # command prompt. So #cp [file name] [directory name]. Do I need to list the entire path to the file for the file name? I see on my Windows PC that it would be D:|SCO|OpenSrv|VOL.000.000 And I really have no idea what to use for the directory to copy to.

I'm also seeing a lot about ASF and that this may need to be disabled. Is that something that can be done fairly easily? Sorry I'm such a novice with this system but any help is greatly appreciated.

Historically VOL.000.000 would be a floppy image but you should be able to install it directly from CD using custom.

(SCO Unix) I've downloaded a driver.dd or driver.img file, what do I dowi

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need some help copying a VOL.000.000 from floppy to HD

EDIT: On later versions of SCO the custom command was replaced by the scoadmin command. So if custom gives "command not found" then try scoadmin. These are the management utilities to do things like you are attempting.