Novell 3.12 BNC to Cat 5
Ian Price
I have to quote for the following job.
Novell 3.12 + 8 client already in place connected on a BNC network, all the
machine including the server have COMBI network cards. I presume I can just
run the driver software for cards and tell it to start using the RJ45
connection instead of the BNC. This is fine for the PC, but how do I do this
on the server, how do you get to a dos prompt. With a boot disk ?
I may have to change the NIC as well, do all modern NIC work with Novell
3.12.
Is there anything else I should take into consideration
Many thanks in advance
Ian Price
Tim Tornado
ipr...@wiseman.co.uk says...
protocol to us the RJ45 also. As for which nic will work on Novell 3.12,
check the drivers... if not listed don't buy it :-(
As for taking things into considerations.... why switch to cat5? are they
expecting to see some speed improvement? That won't happen... you'll be
switching from one 10Mhz network to another.... I'd upgrade the server
first in that case.
make sure you have the driver installation disk for when they installed
the nics they have. I have run into problems where I downloaded the
latest drivers and found that they would not work because no one ever
updated the server...LSL ...ODI....
to get to a dos prompt you will need to down the server just type down
at the system console prompt (sysnamehere:)
unless of course someone has issued the remove dos command, in which case
you will get to the dos prompt after the server warmboots (3.12 needs a
dos partition to boot thankfully) Type server at the dos prompt to launch
netware when your done.
personally, depending on the computing power of the server, I would
install a second nic in the server for maybe 100MHZ for RJ45 and move
people over individually with new 100mhz nics. This way the server is
only down a short time and individual people are down for only a few
hours each.. instead of the entire company for maybe days...
good Luck!