Subject: Insufficient Extended Memory Below 16 MB error - netware 6
The Flying Dutchman
Once upon a time I was a command line junkie but I got addicted to mice and
all the joys that go with it.
I got hold of a the Novell Neware 6 Demonstration kit for "Digital Airlines"
Its disc 6C and I cant wait to get things set up and running to play and
learn, learn and learn some more.
At this point I am ready to throw in the towel since there is obviously
something that this alleged CD s not doing automatically. What are the
pre-requsisites on this machine? Does it indeed need a guest OS thereon,
and how about the bit where it intializizes drives on the machine? Does it
need more than one physical drives. The documentation from Novell has been
poor, to say the least and I am very, very disappointed.
The actual installation from the CD looks pretty idiot proof. I mean, there
are not many options and the machine is a PIV with a Tyan Trinity
motherboard with an award software, the version of which I am not entirely
certain.
Here is my problem.
The install goes fine and dandy and apparently all is installed the way its
supposed to on two hard disk drives so far. One a 6gig, the other is a
17gig drive. I even wrote zeros to one of the drives based on some of the
stuff that I read and ran fdisk as a measure of overkill to make sure that I
had eliminated any traces of Microsoft from this machine.
When the machine starts up, this is the error message that I get
"Insufficient extended memory below 16 MB to run Netware 6. (at lease 5 MB
of free extended memory below 16 MB required)"
C:\NWSERVER
I know that it may have something to do with my adding a few lines to the
autoexec or config.sys files but I am lost in that regard. Like I said,
this command line stuff is not my strength and I wish that Novell had
created and QA'd their product in such a way that would eliminate these
issues.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Walt Ellena
Ps. Do I need to install DOS 6.22 on this box as well?????? Before I do a
thing with Netware? I don't see any references to DOS on this box at all??
No directories, etc./
Jeden
No you do not need to install dos on the system. Novell uses DR DOS
which will install with the setup from the cd.
I suggest you visit www.novell.com and choose support. TID 10023325
shows the recommended settings for config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Good luck.