Installing the Driver During a Fresh Install of NetWare 5.0, 5.1,. 6.0 Follow these instructions only if you are installing NetWare for the first time.

In we showed you how to prepare your server and network for the latest version of NetWare. Now it’s time to get down to brass tacks: installing NetWare 5.1 on your server. In this Daily Drill Down, we’ll walk you through a simple installation of NetWare 5.1 on your server. Double-check a few things first Before you install NetWare 5.1 on your server, double-check to make sure that you have everything ready. If you’re integrating your new NetWare 5.1 server into an existing NDS tree, verify that you’ve installed the latest support packs on any NetWare 4.x and 5.0 servers in your tree. Make sure you have several full backups of data on your server, especially your NDS tree. You should also verify that your server can run NetWare 5.1.

The minimum hardware requirements for NetWare 5.1 are listed below, followed by some recommendations: • A Pentium processor. (A very fast Pentium III is recommended.) • A VGA monitor. (SVGA is recommended.) • 50-MB DOS partition with 35 MB available. (You should create a DOS partition that exceeds the amount of RAM in the server by 50 MB and has at least 35 MB available.) • 750 MB of free disk space on SYS for the standard NetWare 5.1 products.

• 750 MB of additional free disk space if you install the IBM WebSphere Application server. • 128 MB of RAM for the standard NetWare 5.1 products. (At least 256 MB is recommended.) • 128 MB of additional RAM if you install the IBM WebSphere Application server. (512 MB of additional RAM is recommended for this product.) • 128 MB of additional RAM if you install the Oracle8 i Data server. (256 MB of additional RAM is recommended for this product.) If you’ve never worked with NetWare 5.1, it might be a good idea to install it for the first time in a test environment. That way, you can get a feel for some of the new features in NetWare 5.1 before it has an impact on your production network. Doing so also gives you the opportunity to make some mistakes without affecting your entire network.

A simple NetWare 5.1 installation Like earlier versions of NetWare, your server must have a small, bootable DOS partition with DOS loaded on it before you can start installing NetWare 5.1. The partition should be at least 500 MB. You can use any version of MS-, PC-, or DR-DOS for this partition as long as it’s version 3.3 or higher.

You can’t use the version of DOS that comes with Windows 9x. If you don’t have a copy of DOS lying around, you can use Novell DOS 7.0, which you can find on the NetWare 5.1 license disk. Naturally, to install NetWare 5.1, you'll need the NetWare 5.1 CD.

Ideally, you'll place the NetWare 5.1 CD in a CD-ROM on your server. Check to make sure that the DOS CD-ROM driver is loaded and that you've executed MSCDEX in the DOS session. If your server doesn't have a CD-ROM, don't panic. If you have another server on the network with a CD-ROM, you can load the DOS NETX/VLM client on the server you want to upgrade and connect to the server with the CD-ROM.

Then, you can load the installation program across the network. Don't confuse this process with an across-the-wire upgrade. Because you're upgrading the version of NetWare on an existing server, it's still considered an in-place upgrade. You're just pulling the data for the new software across the network. After you insert the CD, you can start the upgrade.

You start NetWare 5's upgrade program by typing Install at the DOS prompt and pressing [Enter]. When you do, the first installation screen appears. 13 Reasons Why Film there.