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| liquidplatinum 2002-09-02, 11:08 am |
| Hey Guys...
I was trying to install the trial version of Netware 6 on one of my test boxes, and encountered some problems. The box supports booting from CD, so I slapped in the CD and restarted it. It said that it would have to create a new bootable partition and warned that it would erase everything on the disk. Since I only had a test copy of Windows XP on it, I opted to go ahead. When it restarted after making the change, I'm getting bootstrap errors and nothing will get the computer to boot that I've tried. I tried switching the boot order so that the floppy boots first and then tried every boot disk imaginable but keep getting errors trying to boot. The drive is completely formatted at this point.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thank you in advance! | |
| rdtricks 2002-09-08, 10:37 am |
| All things being equal, at first it appears that you had done all the right things. I then re read your original post an noticed that you were loading onto a drive that had been built using MS XP. If I am not mistaken XP uses NTFS and will not allow a 'lower' level OS format the boot sector.
My suggestions are;
1) Flatten the partition table(s) that are currently on the drive using your DOS BOOT disk.
2) Recreate a new partition with your DOS BOOT disk.
3) Format the drive using the DOS BOOT disk or your copy of the NetWare 6 trial version CD.
At this point you should be good to go.
Let us know what happens.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." | |
| dheinsdorf 2002-09-10, 7:08 pm |
| I agree. I like DelPart myself: http://www.ntfaq.com/download/delpart.exe and nuke is and do the boot to CD deal.
Might want to cleanup your bios - kill onboard sound, set to non-pnp OS - theres lots you can adjust depending. If this is your first time with NetWare I suggest booting to CD and letting it do the work, but I prefer MSDos 6.22 myself and I believe it still the preferred bootstrap. The Caldera partition is going to be stripped down bare so its not great for reasons stemming from that. If you go MSDos you will need to have some tweaking done to make it go right.
I havent had time to play with XP yet nor read some multiboot articles I have come saved, but if I didnt like having a seperate box for each OS/NOS I would have tried something like PartitionMagic to move things around and then get Dos6.22 on there along with NetWare and whatever versions of Windows.
What you using for warez? I ran that Beta on a Celeron 300 w/256meg and did not have fun. No real errors just that stuff wouldnt work - and thats kinda how it will act. Its much nicer now on a PIII 733 /512meg.
Is this your first NetWare box? (opps - just realized I asked that). Your gonna have fun!
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Originally posted by rdtricks
All things being equal, at first it appears that you had done all the right things. I then re read your original post an noticed that you were loading onto a drive that had been built using MS XP. If I am not mistaken XP uses NTFS and will not allow a 'lower' level OS format the boot sector.
My suggestions are;
1) Flatten the partition table(s) that are currently on the drive using your DOS BOOT disk.
2) Recreate a new partition with your DOS BOOT disk.
3) Format the drive using the DOS BOOT disk or your copy of the NetWare 6 trial version CD.
At this point you should be good to go.
Let us know what happens.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
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