I want to use a home-built Pentium 166 computer with 64MB of RAM and a Western Digital 4.3GB drive as a NetWare server.
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01 Apr 1999
Q.
Dear Ab-end: I want to use a home-built Pentium 166 computer with 64MB of RAM and a Western Digital 4.3GB drive as a NetWare server. The machine previously had Windows NT installed, along with Exchange and IIS. I cleaned everything off the hard drive and now I am trying to install NetWare 4.11. The computer has a small DOS partition, and I have turned off LBA in the BIOS.
The NetWare OS installs fine and mounts volume SYS and another volume I created during the install. I can type the VOLUMES command and it shows both volumes as being mounted. But once I restart the server, it can't find the NetWare partition. I am asked to enter the server name and internal network number (I believe because it can't find the AUTOEXEC.NCF file). Once I supply this information, the server seems to start but it can't find any volumes to mount. I have retried the installation about eight times, every time with the same result. I sure would appreciate any suggestions.
—Disk-Couraged in Denver
A.
Dear Disk-Couraged: It sounds like your hard disk controller's disk driver is not loading correctly in the STARTUP.NCF file. After you restart the server, type MOUNT SYS at the server prompt. If you get "no volumes available" or a similar message, try manually loading the .DSK driver at the server prompt. Then try mounting volume SYS again.
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