CM> RE: TCPIP and ELS 2.20
 CM> BY: Chris Holten to TCPIP'ers on Tue Oct 14 1997 01:04 pm
 > workstations. Installing hard drives to get Novell's 
 CM> 2meg VLM/TCPIP setup is
 > not an option, nor is upgrading from ELS 2.20.
 > 
 > Any help and example net.cfg .bat etc files appreciated.
 > 
 CM> Have you looked at the Client 32 for DOS? It has a smaller footprint 
than 
 CM> VLMs.
I got it Charles. It really was quite easy if you didn't pay any attention to 
what the Novell books and the trained chimpanzee novell install said/did. I 
had tried using the Novell Client install from thier Client TCPIP CD. It 
wouldn't install to a floppy so I installed it on a hard drive, replaced 
VLM.EXE with NET.EXE and I have IPX and TCPIP booting off a floppy. Works 
fine. All I really had to do was add the TCPIP.EXE and set up TCPIP in the 
NET.CFG file. I was able to get both IPX and TCP + Tiny Term for DOS on a 
1.44 meg floppy. Had to leave all the fluf that Novell and Tiny term like to 
stuff on the disk to do that but it works now. Now we can use any AT,386, or 
486 with or without a hard drive as a dumb terminal. All we have to do is 
just stuff an NE2000 card in them.
 
Maybe I'll try the 32 bit client some day, but for now all the floppy booted 
workstations are rocking and rolling. Never touch what wurks. All they doing 
is using Tiny Term DOS to hook into an IBM AIX system, so it really doesn't 
matter too much about the memory foot print.
Thanks Charles.
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