Can you upgrade a Netware 4.11 server to Netware 5? 1

[jcacciap]

Is it possible to upgrade a stand-alone NW 4.11 server to NW 5 or do I need to back-up and do a clean install?

 

[dynamode]

yes any version of netware 5 will automatically assume an upgrade is ocurring as soon as it sees the netware 4 on the box. in fact it will use the existing schema and extend it as necessary.

 

[microcare]

Yes you can. But after spending three days getting it to work. There are some gotcha's. Out problems were with Netware connect and NAIS, From Netware 4 DHCP to NDS DHCP<br>
But when we finished the whole network (3 servers, 4.11,4.2,5.0 to 5.0,5.0 with DHCP and 4.11) went much fast and is very stable. (and we abuse it ).<br>
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GOLDEN RULE 1 <br>
DO YOUR BACKUPS !!<br>
Why break it now?<br>
jcacciap, we put the 4.11 sys vol into an other machine and a new hard disk in the server for 5.0 then upgraded as well as having backups.<br>