NetWare 6 SP1 Woes
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Nov 2002
Q.
I have encountered a small but annoying problem installing post Support Pack 1 patches for NetWare 6. Installing NetWare 6 with the Support Pack 1 (SP1) overlay does not put any record of SP1 installation in the Products.dat file. Several post SP1 patches look in the Products.dat file to verify that SP1 is installed and doesn't find it. How can I work around this annoyance?
SP'd in Sandwich Islands
A.
Dear SP'd: You could consider installing Support Pack 1 separately. The idea of using a NetWare 6 plus Support Pack 1 overlay CD was to avoid installing SP1 separately, so now things get a bit technical.
Paraphrasing TID #10060763, in order to add an entry to the Products.dat file, you need to create and run a script that adds the appropriate information to the Installed Products listing. To do this, create a text file with the extension <Filename>.IPS that will contain the following information:
ProductRecord SPACK, 0, "6.0.0"
ProductRecord SPACK, 1, "v1.0 Support Pack for NetWare 6.0"
Display 1, "Edits to PRODUCTS.DAT file are complete.\n\n Please unload NWCONFIG.NLM before installing anything else."
Run this text file by going into the NWCONFIG utility and select Product Options | Install a product not listed, then specify the path to your file. Running this will create an entry in the Installed Products listing that looks like this:
SPACK 6.0.0 v1.0 Support Pack for NetWare 6.0
Other products or patches can be entered into the Installed Products listing by copying the ProductRecord lines and changing the SPACK to a different codeword, then by changing the version (shown as 6.0 above) to the more correct version, and by changing the description field to accurately describe the new entry. With wildcards, the ProductRecord lines will look like the following:
ProductRecord <CodeWord>, 0, "<Major Version>.<Minor Version>.<Patch Version>
ProductRecord <CodeWord>, 1, "Product Description"
This should solve your problem.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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