I will be installing Novell 4.11 on an IBM Netfinity 5600 Server. There are two 34GB drives to be mirrored and there is also a Raid Controller card. The Raid Controller card has been setup (mirror setup at that level), what is the best way to go about installing the Novell? There will be approximately six volumes for software, applications etc. Just need some idea on what you figure the best way is to get this on the go. Is Novell 4.11 CD bootable and therefore can I just boot to it and do the partitioning from here. I was thinking if so, maybe with that I could create a 2GB DOS partition, then maybe 7GB for SYS, please let me know what you think. Thx.
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Need help on installing Novell 4.11
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You will need a startup disk, something that has a DOS version on it (DOS 6.22 works great for this since you can build a config menu) with FDISK and FORMAT to create the DOS Partition. You should also have some CD ROM drivers available to load so you can begin the installation of Netware 4.11 (Netware 4.11 install CD's are not bootable). Boot with the floppy and create your DOS Partition, at this point you can either load a full version of DOS or just the files you believe you will need. In the past I just loaded the files I needed but the last few servers that I've configured I just went ahead and loaded the full version. Once you get DOS loaded on the boot partition, make sure you place Files=20 and Buffers=20 in the Config.sys file, otherwise you 4.11 installation will hang.
As far as the DOS partition, I believe that 2GB is a little large, I've created servers with as little 500 Megs on the DOS partition, since space is fairly cheap these days I leave it at the 2GB size. I don't know a reason to have a 2gig partition but there may be one out there (I just don't know it).
My servers run a 4gig sys volume, this allows for any large updates and backup files that Novell creates with their service packs. Keep in mind that I don't load any production, application or user storage on the SYS volume. I have had a nightmare in the past when my user copied their entire hard drive to their home directory that existed on the SYS volume. Talking from experience, it is not fun trying to get a server up where the SYS volume has run out of disk space.....
As far as the other partitions, you will need to justify the space for those, I usually leave a 20 percent of the disk space available if needed in the future. I do this partly because of my SYS volume running out of space and if my users or applications run out of volume space. I can enlarge that particular volume and it gives me a little breathing room to plan for additional Hard Drives or hardware replacement. Of course this is personal preference.
Your proposed settings will not cause any future problems, but after you evaluate all your data that is going to be stored on the server and you run into a little space problem, you can trim down your settings a little.
Long answer hope this helps you a little, questions like these are always fun since it gets everyone involved. I even learn a few things during the life of these questions. Take care and if you have any further questions let us know..... david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*
As far as the DOS partition, I believe that 2GB is a little large, I've created servers with as little 500 Megs on the DOS partition, since space is fairly cheap these days I leave it at the 2GB size. I don't know a reason to have a 2gig partition but there may be one out there (I just don't know it).
My servers run a 4gig sys volume, this allows for any large updates and backup files that Novell creates with their service packs. Keep in mind that I don't load any production, application or user storage on the SYS volume. I have had a nightmare in the past when my user copied their entire hard drive to their home directory that existed on the SYS volume. Talking from experience, it is not fun trying to get a server up where the SYS volume has run out of disk space.....
As far as the other partitions, you will need to justify the space for those, I usually leave a 20 percent of the disk space available if needed in the future. I do this partly because of my SYS volume running out of space and if my users or applications run out of volume space. I can enlarge that particular volume and it gives me a little breathing room to plan for additional Hard Drives or hardware replacement. Of course this is personal preference.
Your proposed settings will not cause any future problems, but after you evaluate all your data that is going to be stored on the server and you run into a little space problem, you can trim down your settings a little.
Long answer hope this helps you a little, questions like these are always fun since it gets everyone involved. I even learn a few things during the life of these questions. Take care and if you have any further questions let us know..... david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*
Forgot one thing, make sure you download SP9 from Novell first, you will need to install it after your NW4.11 installation is completed.....
david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*
david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*
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