NW 3.12 Installation!
PK
primary master & (2) 4.3 GB IDE primary slave) with NW 3.12 CD. However,
some problems encountered!
(1) I intended to install NW 3.12 to this 4.3 GB hardisk with 40GB hardisk
selected not installed in BIOS. First, I used fdisk to set up an active DOS
6.22 partition with a size of 300 MB and then made it bootable; afterwards,
I install with CD starting from install.bat (d:\netware.312\english\), it
seems to be OK; until it ask me to create a dos partition, at this time, I
found that it showed me that the active partition is only 0.3MB while only
14MB free space left. What's wrong with me?
(2) I still chose to force it to install the dos portion of NW to this 0.3MB
space, at the time it tried to install, it prompt me for a system_1 disk, I
have tried to change the path to the other folder in CD, but I still can't
find the files it needed. Can anyone help me?
Thanks!
Richard
Felton Green (SysOp)
Make the drives MASTER on BOTH channels.
We strongly recommend that SCSI drives be used BTW, but we also recognize
that the bean counters have control. <sigh>
There is a way, but you'll not like what has to be done.
1. Do NOT use LBA in the bios. Set the option to NORMAL
2. Create a 100 MB Dos drive with Dos 6.22
3. Install Dos
The following will speed up your install process if you have the CD-ROM
copies of NetWare and the 3.2 enhancement pack:
4. Xcopy the Netware.312 directory to the C: drive
5. Xcopy the 32enh directory off the 3.2 enhancement pack CD-ROM
If you xcopy the files to the drive, you'll not need to load the CD-ROM
drivers
6. Install NetWare
7. Create a 500 MB NetWare partition and use the ide.exe update dsk
driver
8. Install NetWare by using the install.nlm that is located at:
c:\netware\________\BC
command at the console prompt: load c:\netware.312\________\BC
\install.nlm
This will allow you to copy the system files from the C: drive Copy the
system files from the netware.312\english directory
9. Reboot the server
10. Install the 3.2 enhancement pack by using the install/product option
and point the install to c:\32enh
11. When the 3.2 enhancement pack is installed reboot the server
12. Download and install the 3.2 minimum patch listing from here:
http://support.novell.com/misc/patlst.htm
13. When the 3.2 minimum patch list is installed the server.exe file can
now use the HAM drivers that are in the NWPAUP1A.EXE file. This will
allow full use of your EIDE drive.
Now the part you'll not like:
14. Down the server and use the Dos fdisk.exe command to remove the
NetWare partition.
15. Install NetWare
16. Install the 3.2 enhancement pack
17. Install the 3.2 minimum patch list
You may have to perform the lswap procedure to recognize all the ram that
is in your machine also:
The possibility that the server.exe in the DOS partition did not get
updated. This the procedure to update the server.exe:
LSWAP EXE
============
The defaults used in the command lines are from NetWare 4.1x handling so
for
the typical 3.12 server update, if it does update automatically, you will
need to not only run it manually, but make sure that you use the correct
path setting.
Both LSWAP.EXE and LSWAP.NLM use the same command line options. First
option specifies the location to LOADER.EXE.
(DEFAULT:C:\NWSERVER\LOADER.EXE).
The second option specifies location to SERVER.EXE or MSERVER.EXE.
(DEFAULT: C:\NWSERVER\SERVER.EXE).
So, it the typical scenario where you need to run this manually from the
DOS prompt in the C:\Server.312 directory, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure that both LSWAP.EXE and LOADER.EXE are in the Server.312
directory.
2) Then use the following command syntax:
LSWAP C:\SERVER.312\LOADER.EXE C:\SERVER.312\SERVER.EXE
3) When this is done, you should end up with a SERVER.EXE with a new date
and a copy of the old server.exe as SERVER.OLD with the old date.
--
Felton Green (SysOp)
Novell Support Connection Forums
PK
You meant that I should move the 4.3 GB primary slave IDE hardisk to become
a secondary master in order to solve the problem!
How about it asking me for a system_1 disk?
Richard
"Felton Green (SysOp)" <felton...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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Felton Green (SysOp)
Actually, I'd use the 4.3 as primary master.
Since you copied the netware.312 directory to the hard drive, launch the
install.nlm from the netware.312 directory.
Barry Schnur
the boot and SYS drive), note this, even AFTER applying the full set of 3.12
patches (including NWPA updates) which you MUST do PRIOR to trying to install
the second IDE drive (since it is >8G and you must use the latest IDEATA.HAM
drivers possible for 3.12 for >8G drives AND for effective use of both the
primary and secondary IDE ports), I would STILL be leery of running that
second drive past 32G.
Barry Schnur
Novell Support Connection Sysop
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