Upgrade from 5.0.5 to 5.0.7 Hangs during Installation

During a 5.0.7 Upgrade Install on Sco Openserver the Installation Process will hang at 0% complete after a short period of activity.
The hang is caused by some Installation script problems and some defunct "grep" processes.

The trick is to kill these processes to get the installation going.

While the install has hung press CTRL ALT F2 to get to the second shell and you should see an prompt.

Now because your in the middle of an upgrade your pathing wont work, so you have to absolutely execute commands.
<Installation> cd /hdFS/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.7Hw <Installation> ./bin/ps -ef |grep grep
Note the process ID of the grep, then kill it as below.
<Installation> ./bin/kill <process_id>

Press CTRL ALT F1 to get back to the Installer and you should see it start to kick on.

NOTE: This worked in my case, Of the 2 or 3 pages I found on the Internet one person talked about having to kill addtional processes. Also There is nothing on the SCO Site about this whatsoever!

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