From: Erik Jensen 
Subject: Re: 2-user NetWare 4.11 install ---------- HELP!!!
Date: 1999/07/26
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Steve & Blue wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:56:58 GMT, rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger
> Kresge) wrote:
> 
> >zzarly@yahoo.com (Steve & Blue) wrote:
> >
> >>The version that cam with "Novell's Guide to IntranetWare Networks"
> >>
> >>Trying to install on my home computer.
> >>
> >>Tried everything I'm comfortable with trying to no avail.
> >>
> >>Anyone have a step by step they can email to me???
> >>A DETAILED step by step.
> >
> >There's one in the product documentation, which is available online at
> >http://support.novell.com.  Why not tell us what your problem appears to
> >be, including symptoms and error messages?
> 
> Thanks for the response Roger,
> 
>         I'll check novell support.  I'm not sure I've actually been there
> yet.  I think I've been everywhere else on that site.
> 
>         What I want to do (which may or may not be possible based on what
> I've read at deja news and others) is make my computer a client server

Problem #1 -- Novell NetWare servers are SERVERS. Not clients. PC that
login to the servers are CLIENTS. Novell is a server-centric system.

 while
> keeping Windows 98 installed at the same time.

Problem #2 -- Windows 98 will probably make it impossible for you to
install Novell NetWare on the same machine. I've NEVER seen it done,
including with the aid of third party programs such as System Commander.

>         I can get the client installed okay on my c: drive and I have a
> second fixed disk with 2.1 GB available.  I've partitioned off about 50 MB
> for Novell DOS.  My problem is that I can't seem to get the CD-ROM installed
> as a DOS device. 

Even if you did the client cannot exist on the same PC as the server!
You can't use both on the same PC at the same time... and BOTH must be
active to be useful.


 I've seen about 25 different ways to do it in the config.
> sys and autoexec.bat and I tried a couple of them but they did not work.  I
> fear that it is more me than the advice.  My DOS skills are weak

Problem #3 -- You haven't mastered the fundamentals.
 so I didn't
> want to try anything I did not understand and really screw up my system.
>         If you can offer anything by way of advice it would be greatly
> apprieciated.  Until then I take a look at support.
> 

Suggestion: since NetWare 4.11 is not (by today's standards) hardware
intensive, put a second PC to use as your server. You could get away
with a 486 33 MHZ, a 1 GB IDE drive, 16 MB of RAM, a 4x CD-ROM, a 1 MB
video card  and a ISA NIC.