Subj : Novell 4.11 to 5.1 migration
To   : Jim Wargula
From : Bonno Bloksma
Date : Tue Oct 24 2000 01:38 pm

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

Hello Jim!

Monday October 23 2000 13:08, Jim Wargula wrote to Darren Gibbs:

[NW5 server with IPX and IP]
 JW> Might I assume that it will be very easy to eliminate the IPX
 JW> protocol bindings after they are no longer needed?

Yes, just delete the bind ipx line(s) in your autoexec.ncf, that's it.

 JW> -> RAID 5 is also supported by NSS as long as it's hardware based.
 JW>
 JW> I'm looking to mirror/duplex the system volume,

By NetWare or by hardware? Both options are open because the SYS volumes MUST
have TTS (because of the NDS database) and NSS does not support TTS yet. So SYS
needs to be on a tradional NetWare partition and on those NetWare can do the
mirroring for you.

 JW> so that a failure will not stop the server from booting, but to use
 JW> hardware Raid 5 to get disk use efficiency with safety for the data
 JW> area.

If you allready have RAID5 then I can think of only one reason not to put the
SYS volume on the RAID 5 partiton. That one reason is the fact that you may
later want to add disks to the RAID partiton and your RAID host cannot do this
without destroying and rebuilding the RAID partition. So by all means put the
SYS volume on the RAID partition.

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

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