SP> You don't convert existing DOS drives .... you install Netware
SP> after fdisk-ing your drives to only have a small DOS partition
SP> on the boot drive and leaving the rest undefined.
Got this.
MB>  BN> So moving a drive that's storing a few hundred megs of
MB>  BN> archives for my BBS to  a server wouldn't need to be
MB>  BN> redefined using NFS, it would remain as a dos  partition and
MB>  BN> just be mounted?
MB> You cannot mount a DOS-format partition on a NetWare server as a shared
MB> resource.  You must use NetWare proprietary-format volumes and partitions 
a
MB> shared resources.
Ok, so, I need to re-install any drives as NETWARE drives, and thus erase all 
data on those drives.  I can than restore any data from a backup to these 
drives using any client with access.
MB>  BN> On the Boot drive, is there a recommended size for either of
MB>  BN> the partitions  (DOS/Netware)?  Does a large Netware
MB>  BN> partition help performance at all?  Say I had 100MB for DOS
MB>  BN> and 400 for Netware.  Would it affect performace to have a 
MB>  BN> 250MB for DOS and 250 for Netware?
MB> 
MB> In general, NetWare uses the DOS partition only to load its own files,
MB> effectively reducing DOS to a kind of boot loader for the NetWare 
operating
MB> system.  Once NetWare has started, DOS plays no role in network 
operations:
MB> you cannot share the DOS-formatted partition on the server, and you 
cannot 
MB> DOS programs on the server.  As a result, any space allocated to the DOS
MB> partition on the server, over and above what is needed to hold the 
etWare
MB> startup files, is plain waste.
That makes perfect sense :)
SP> Defining your netware partitions, number of volumes and size,
SP> then "mounting" them is the first stage of the installation.
SP> Yes you will have to re-install all your software on the server.
Right this is what I was reading and got confused about how to restore the 
other data, but using a client was the answer which was discovered :)
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