Subj : Re: non-disk stations
To   : Eugene Turin
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Wed Oct 25 2000 10:29 pm

 ET> i still need help.
 ET> the situation is:
 ET> novell netware 3.12
 ET> i have a net$dos.sys and autoexec.bat in sys:login.
 ET> there is a clipper application in the station - and it calls a errors.
 ET> stations with disks looks good. our clipper specialists says that the
 ET> string files 80 in config.sys is necessery. that is why stations with
 ET> disks are fine - they take config.sys from it's disks. but coping
 ET> config.sys to sys:login didn't help.

Because config.sys is read from the disk image net$dos.sys.

To understand why this works, you have to know a little about boot images, and 
how to generate them. Basically, the contents of the boot image are read 
directly from the image UNTIL the point that the shell is loaded - which is why 
you ned a copy of autoexec.bat on the server as well - once you load the shell, 
it stops reading the image, and if it can;t find the file in its first 
accessable location {SYS:LOGIN}, execution stops.

To fix your problem, you need to regenerate your net$dos.sys file from your 
original boot floppy _after_ modifying the config.sys file.

If you don't know how to do this, contact me via netmail, and I'll give you 
some solutions.

DaZZa

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