Learn Novell 6.5?

[ylancantho]

I think about buying Novell 6.5 Study Guide at Novell website, but I've heard Novell is coming out with Novell Linux, which I'm not familiar with. Is Novell Linux gonna replace Novell 6.5? Is it worth while to learn Novell 6.5? What about Novell Linux?

Thank you much

 

[LawnBoy]

Netware 6.5 is apparently the last version of Netware that Novell is going to release.The linux products, SuSE and Open Enterprise Server, are currently available.

Is Netware 6.5 a quality OS that will be around for at least another 5 years? Most certainly. NW6.5 is a long way from being obsolete. In fact, Novell has promised support for NW6.5 "for as long as our customers wish to run it".

The linux products are intended as a replacement for Netware, and are what Novell will be developing in the future.

 

[marvhuffaker]

I believe that Novell announced that NetWare 6.5 would be supported through the year 2015. That's a long time.

Most of Novell's products are cross platform which means they run on Windows, Linux, or NetWare. So really it's not so much learning the Operating System, it's learning the services and such that run on it. eDirectory - the concepts are the same regardless of the OS. So any info you learn on the Netware platform will also be valid on other platforms -- with only a slight change to the syntax.

Also.... I've worked with people that were raised in the Linux world and never touched a NetWare server. They struggle to grasp the concepts of eDirectory and other Novell services.. If you learn them on NetWare, again, transitioning these services to Linux will be easier. Learn Linux by itself and then try to figure out how eDirectory fits - that can be confusing.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[ylancantho]

I have a HP laptop that does not have a floppy drive. How do I create a bootable CDROM to install Netware?

Thank you

 

[ylancantho]

Does Netware 6.5 come with bootable CDROM?

 

[marvhuffaker]

Download the NetWare 6.5 SP5 Overlay CD's (2 of them). Burn the ISO's to disk and the first one will boot. You don't need a floppy at all.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[rudis]

Hey ylancantho,

your are in a Netwareforum where hardly anybody will tell you "stay out of Netware", of course not.
Nevertheless:
A competent admin will seek for the OS which serves best for your purposes, for your customers needs and for a reasonable price. If you have users that love to work and hate to wait, Netware always has been a good choice. If they will turn to Linux, they wont give up their goodies of Netware. It will rather be a soft migration as we have seen it in Mac OSX, except you are a developper.
So check out, what's the purpose to learn about any IT-System.
We currently migrate Win-Servers to UNIX for a global carmaker who is desperately lost with his Win-machines in running several Oracle-Databaseinstances on each machine. If they hadn't dropped Netware they wouldn't know this problems.
Netware is reliable and compared to UNIX/Linux much easier to manage with its native standardtools; Merging the Linux-Netware-stuff seems to me pretty charming from the Applications point of view.

As someoneelse in the forum already stated
Linux for development
Netware to serve
Apple for productivity
Windows for solitaire and to be served, patched,
"REALTIMEPROTECTED", rebootet, reinstalled,
memoryupgraded ...

Rudi