How do I install Unix system V?

Unix System V is from 1983. There is a pretty good chance that the disk image you have is not even for Intel x86 architectures and won't work at all on your system or emulator, let alone other hardware driver incompatibilities. Maybe if you used one of the alternate qemu architectures. But most likely you'd need to get your hands on compatible hardware that still works. There are some youtube videos where people boot these old systems and explorer them a bit.


You can find a complete tutorial of how installing AT&T System V/386 (SYSVR4 v 2.1) in Bochs on the www.linuxquestions.org forum. Some paticipants of the forum claim to run it under qemu, VirtualBox and even on an bare bone Pentium 3.

Even if studying System V is a form of computer archeology, it could still have some historical and technical interest.