Notes for creating a stock standard Netware 3.12 File Server

Mark Dods, Computer Technician
Yarra Valley Anglican School

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. Create a directory called NETWARE, change into it, and copy the System-1 disk into it: XCOPY A:\*.* C:\NETWARE /S
  5. If installing from CD-ROM, install the DOS CD-ROM drivers.
  6. Run Server.Exe: SERVER
  7. Enter the server name. KEEP IT SHORT!
  8. Enter a unique internal IPX number (suggest A1)
  9. Load disk driver: LOAD IDE.DSK
  10. Press [Enter] for the default disk I/O port & Interrupt.
  11. Load Install from the System-2 disk: LOAD A:INSTALL
  12. 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.
  13. Create the SYS volume by selecting Volume Options from the menu. Press [Insert] to insert a volume. Press [Esc] to accept default settings.
  14. Press [Enter] on the SYS item in the Volume list and change volume status to mounted. Press [Esc] to return to Installation Options
  15. From the System Options menu, select Copy the System & Public Files. If installing from floppy disks, insert disks as prompted. If installing from CD-ROM, press [F6] and enter D:\NETWARE.312\ENGLISH as the directory to copy files from.
  16. Press [Alt]+[Esc] to switch to the console screen (colon prompt).
  17. load the NMAgent NLM: LOAD NMAGENT
  18. 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
  19. Load the network card driver: LOAD NE2000.LAN Enter the I/O address & Interrupt number of your network card.
  20. Bind IPX to network card driver: BIND IPX TO NE2000 Enter your network number when prompted (Usually 1). 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 18 in this file before the load NE2000 line. Note if you want to run old boot ROMs or you have existing workstations using the 802.3 frame type, you will need to change the BIND line to "frame=ETHERNET_802.3". You can also enter "load monitor" as the last line of the file to load the Netware file server monitor NLM each time the server starts. [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 C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
    @ECHO OFF
    PROMPT $P$G
    CD \NETWARE
    SERVER
    ^Z

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

  26. Reboot your server.