Subj : Netware 4.12 to 5
To   : Rob McPhee
From : Bonno Bloksma
Date : Fri Oct 20 2000 01:30 pm

Reply-To: bonno.bloksma@bighole.iaf.nl

Hello Rob!

Thursday October 19 2000 10:59, Rob McPhee wrote to All:

 RM> I was wondering what the main implications are when upgrading from
 RM> Netware 4.11 to version 5.

On the same fysical server or upgrade to new hardware? Netware 5 needs more
RAM, VGA needs to be VESA2 compliant, not VESA3 as I found out. :-( I just
thought VESA3 would even be better, this "problem" might be solved with a
service pack soon.

If you have verry large volumes (30+GB) and don't need:
- mirroing by Netware itself, meaning you don't mirror at all or allready have
RAID doing it for you;
- limiting diskspace per user, meaning volume or directory space restrictions
then consider using NSS volumes in stead of the tradition Netware partitions.
Load and, if ever needed repair, times are much faster. NSS needs lots less RAM
for large volumes.
CDROM support is now also an option of the NSS and once loaded will
auto(dis)mount CD's. If you need CD's in the server after installation make 
sure
there is a line like "NSS CDROM" in your autoexec.ncf. There can be more 
options
on the load line for NSS, mine loads like this: "NSS Def Dos CDRom" giving me
even access to the C: and (identical D:) drive on the server.

You don't need to switch to the new NDPS printing system, the Queue system will
work nicely thank you and still offer the added bonus of having drivers
associated with a printer/queue. Strangely drivers can, as far as I can see,
only be added from the workstation by directly accessing the queue, not via a
program like NWAdmin. NDPS is usefull if you have "real" NDPS printers, it 
saves
setting them up on the network, or huge printjobs that should go straight from
the workstation to the printer and not via the server.

After installing Netware 5, comment the line 'StartX' in your autoexec.ncf as
you probably won't be using the GUI on the server. If you ever need it you can
enter startx yourself at the command prompt and be ready for whatever.

 RM> As part of the upgrade, Managewise is also going to be installed.
 RM> Will this complicate the process?

Nope, not if you mean installing it after Netware 5 is installed. If you are
upgrading a server that allready have managewise installd and you wish to
upgrade that simultaniously then read the installation manuals carefully.
Probably you will end up upgrading the server first and then upgrading
managewise. However I don't have any reallife experience with managewise so I
might be wrong there.

See ya on/off-line
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|_]onno |_]loksma

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