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installing novell Netware
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| adam salam 2002-07-27, 4:20 am |
| Hi guys
I have downloaded an evolution zip version for Netware6 525MB, unzip it and burn my CD, lable it NETWARE6 It gives me an Image .iso file.
I tried to install it by boot from windows 98 boot diskette format my HD and access the CD-ROM which contains the Netware6.
On the CD-ROM prompt write the command :
D:/>cd netware6 and enter
But the command was failed
What is the best way to install it in a separate partition or in an individual PC.
Am I messing some thing?
Please in details as this is the first attempt for me to trying another OS but MS Windows.
thank you in advance. | |
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| you burn the iso onto cd. then you boot from it. Then you get a bloody 'slot ID' and node thingy... I still haven't got any responce from anyone on another thread ? | |
| adam salam 2002-07-27, 10:04 am |
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you burn the iso onto cd. then you boot from it. Then you get a bloody 'slot ID' and node thingy...
but I couldn't boot from the iso cd.
do you have any instructions? | |
| dheinsdorf 2002-07-27, 1:00 pm |
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Originally posted by adam salam
but I couldn't boot from the iso cd.
do you have any instructions?
First off prep your PC's hardware. Make your CD secondary IDE master - not primary slave. Set OS to non-pnp. disable onboard sound and yank any expansion cards you dont need - soundblasters, etcetera. It wont hurt them to be there but you dont need to tie up resources with unneeded hardware. If you got a ps2 mouse and no UPS or printer. disable com1/2 and lpt1. If serial mouse set, dont set com1 to auto. This is just rule of thumb safety's sake stuff.
Assuming your ISO is a good burn, you need to set your bios to boot from cd. Thats the easiest way to go. Take a win95/98 cd and see if you can boot to it. If not, format about a 500meg (200 minimum but go bigger) msdos 6.22 partition (dont use a 95/98 disk for the format/boot partition) and get dos 6.22 loaded. leave the rest of the HD space alone for now, also you'll need 2gig for volume sys:. Strip "everything" out of autoexec.bat and config.sys except in .sys put files=50 and buffers=30. Just that and nothing else. Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm#cdromdos and install this file from dos, that will setup your CD drivers for dos. Reboot and run d:\install.
After NetWare mounts the CDROM prior to the file copy stage, it may ask which CD drivers you want to use, if it does its usually best to choose the NetWare versus dos drivers.
The Beta kit docs are http://www.novell.com/documentation/beta/nw6p/ and they should apply equally well to the demo download. They leave out the fine details I listed here but step you through everything you need to get going otherwise. | |
| richardwhit 2002-07-28, 3:05 am |
| I could never get my PC to boot from the CD either, even though it is definitely El Torito standard, and I've installed MS OS's this way several times. (Don't shout at me Dheinsdorf!  )
However, that wasn't too much of an issue for me since I formatted a separate DOS partition and installed from there, this is definitely the way to go IMHO. Then follow Dheinsdorf's instructions, like I did a couple of months ago, to get it all up and running. | |
| adam salam 2002-07-28, 3:56 am |
| I tell you what I have done and you instruct me please:
1) Put files=50 and buffers=30 in config.sys.
Dheinsdorf
(What do you mean by Strip "everything" out of autoexec.bat and config.sys except in .sys ) do you mean what you are saying?
2) set the bios to boot from cd.
3) Boot from windows98 floppy (which supporting the cd-rom drivers already)
with the netware6 cd in driver.
From the booting menu choose to support cd-rom driver.
4) Format C completely.
And then use the command on my cd-rom driver
5) D:\>install
I have got this nice sentence:
“Bad command or file name”
Anyway I have tried this with 3 PC’s with the same result
I don’t know why Novell make it difficult to install it’s OS,
comparing with MS which I install OS’s every week with ease. | |
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| adam salam 2002-07-28, 9:12 am |
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Where you get your DOS version from is up to you, I "liberated" an old copy of DOS 5 from work that I found lying around and added CD-ROM support myself. Youc an use Caldera DOS or whatever as long as it boots and supports a CD-ROM drive.
can you please give me link to download DOS version other than MSDos.
I spent a complete day to find but I couldn't
thank you. | |
| richardwhit 2002-07-28, 12:18 pm |
| MS-DOS is fine....(I used version 5 as I said in my post)...I'm sorry if I gave the impression it wasn't. | |
| dheinsdorf 2002-07-28, 1:18 pm |
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Originally posted by adam salam
can you please give me link to download DOS version other than MSDos.
I spent a complete day to find but I couldn't
thank you.
http://www.drdos.org
Minimum dos partition is 200meg for NW6. Minimum MSDos version is 3.3.
Put your win98 boot floppy away and either boot to the NW6 CD or install dos. You didnt say you couldnt boot to CD, you just said you setup bios to boot to CD and then you booted from the 98 floppy instead. | |
| YOUNGMCSE 2002-08-13, 3:17 am |
| I am new for Novel...
Want to do CNE,
can anybody help me out that how should i start off..
Also can i dual boot netware witrh windows ??
if so then wat precautiuons shud i take. |
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Youc an use Caldera DOS or whatever as long as it boots and supports a CD-ROM drive.