Notes for creating a stock standard Netware 3.11 File Server

Mark Dods, Computer Technician
Yarra Valley Anglican School

At the June 1995 PC Education User Group Meeting, the Network Network segment was a demonstration of installing Novell Netware V3.11. Version 3.11 was chosen for the demonstration as it is the most difficult of the versions likely to be being installed at a school. My notes from the demonstration are listed below. Note that this is a stock standard installation of Netware onto an IDE hard drive and using a single NE2000 compatible Ethernet card.

  1. Create a 10 Meg DOS partition on the hard drive using FDisk and make it the active partition.
  2. Format drive C: with boot files using Format C: /s
  3. Reboot from drive C:.
  4. Copy the System-1 disk to drive C:.
  5. Copy ISADisk.Dsk from the System-2 to drive C:.
  6. Run Server.Exe
  7. Enter the server name. KEEP IT SHORT!
  8. Enter a unique internal IPX number (suggest A1)
  9. Load disk driver: LOAD ISADISK.DSK Press [Enter] for the default disk I/O port & Interrupt.
  10. Load Install from the System-2 disk: LOAD A:INSTALL
  11. Create a Netware partition by selecting Disk Options, Partition Tables, Create Netware Partition from the menus. Press [Esc] to accept the default setting. Press [Esc] to return to Installation Options menu.
  12. Create the SYS volume by selecting Volume Options from the menu. Press [Insert] to insert a volume. Press [Esc] to accept default settings.
  13. Press [Enter] on the SYS item in the Volume list and change volume status to mounted. Press [Esc] to return to Installation Options
  14. Copy the System & Public Files, inserting disks as prompted.
  15. Press [Alt]+[Esc] to switch to the console screen (colon prompt).
  16. load the NMAgent NLM: LOAD NMAGENT
  17. Load the streams, clib, mathlib, tli, ipxs, spxs, remote, and rspx NLMs: LOAD XXXX You will need to enter a password for the remote NLM: LOAD REMOTE PASSWORD=SECRET
  18. Load the network card driver: LOAD NE2000.LAN Enter the I/O address & Interrupt number of your network card.
  19. Bind IPX to network card driver: BIND IPX TO NE2000 Enter your network number when prompted (Usually 1).
  20. Press [Alt]+[Esc] to switch back to Install
  21. Select the Create AUTOEXEC.NCF option. You will need to enter each of the load commands from part 17 in this file. [Esc], [Enter] to save.
  22. Select the Create STARTUP.NCF option. Press [Enter] when asked to confirm its location. [Esc], [Enter] to save.
  23. Exit Install by pressing [Esc].
  24. Down the server: DOWN Type EXIT when prompted.
  25. Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT

    COPY CON AUTOEXEC.BAT
    SERVER
    ^Z

    ^Z means hold down [Control] & press [Z].
    No CONFIG.SYS is required.

  26. Reboot your server.