From: "Matty Moore" 
Subject: Re: Problems installing NetWare 4.1
Date: 1998/11/16
Message-ID: #1/1
References: 
Organization: Internet Network Services Ltd
NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Nov 1998 23:38:34 GMT
Newsgroups: fido.novell


Billy Gordon wrote in message ...
>I have a Gateway ALR7200 that I am trying to install Netware 4.1 on. The
>7200 uses onboard SCSI controllers with the AIC78U2.HAM netware driver.
>There are problems with NetWare 4.1 and the new controllers. To overcome
>that, I had to abort the install and update the OS with patch level 8.
>SERVER.EXE and LOADER.EXE were updated.
>
>Now that I can access the disks I tried to rerun INSTALL.NLM. The disks
>are partitioned and the volumes created. But here-in lies the problem,
>when SYS volume is mounted I lose the DOS partition which  contains
>INSTALL.NLM and several other NLM's. I can't load any files that reside
>in C:\NWSERVER. Even if I dismount the SYS volume I still can't see the
>local dos partition. The SYS volume and the DOS partition are on the
>same disk.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>
>

At the Console prompt type -

search add c:\nwserver

This should create a path to the DOS Partition.
The following command could be added to you AUTOEXEC.NCF.

Matt