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from: rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger Kresge)
date: 1999-06-11 00:00:00
subject: Re: Netware 5.0 3-user won`t install!

From: rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger Kresge)
Subject: Re: Netware 5.0 3-user won't install!
Date: 1999/06/11
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Reply-To: rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger Kresge)
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Tekctrl  wrote:

>Recently picked up Netware 5.0 3-user demo for eval & testing.  The
>Readme "recommends" it be installed on P-100 W/64Mb RAM, but doesn't
>state that as the minimum requirements.  Since I don't need speed, just
>functionality, I tried to install it to a 486DX-100 w/32Mb with nothing
>else on it.  The installation hangs the PC about ten seconds from start;
>" . . . . . . . . . . " with no err msgs.  

I'm pretty sure it needs 48 MB no matter what.  The 64 MB recommendation
comes from the requirements of the GUI interface.  RAM's cheap, do 64 and
it'll work.  That doesn't necessarily mean all the extras that come with it
will work - some may need more RAM.

Roger

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