system: You are Brian Niegocki, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Lan message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Bilow about "Re: Netware v4.1 Installion Help".

They wrote:
MB> Brian Niegocki wrote in a message to All:
MB>
MB>  BN> I'm preparing to install Novell Netware v4.1 on my system
MB>  BN> here.  I'm going to  be linking 2 machines to a server,
MB>  BN> planning to expand that later on once I get stuff setup.
MB>
MB> Conveniently enough, you can play with the 2-user demo of NW 4.11 for
MB> Call Novell Fulfillment, (800)395-7135.
MB> A "mount" just means that the drive is logically made available.  In many
MB> This has nothing to do with NFS.  Basically, the specially named "SYS"
MB> gets mounted for you automatically, which is where the operating system
MB> domain database reside.  You can then issue individual "MOUNT" commands
MB> whichever volumes you want mounted, or "MOUNT ALL" for all available
MB> NW volumes use a proprietary file structure, completely unlike DOS.
MB> No.  A NW volume is complicated logical entity.  You can have multiple
MB> participating in a single volume, either for fault tolerance (mirroring,
MB> duplexing, RAID), for space expansion (spanning), or for performance
MB> things which are grossly unnecessary in a 2-user home server, you can
MB> a volume as essentially comparable to a partition (although a partition
MB> actually hold more than one volume).
MB> You are asking really basic questions.  A good book on NetWare might save
MB> a lot of banging your head against the wall.  They way you are talking
MB> me suspect that you have some experience in a different environment but
MB> new to NetWare?

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$15.
I was able to get a 5 user version from a friend through a wholesale dealer,
so that's what I'll be using for now.  It's version 4.1, not 4.11 or
Intranetware as they offer now.  Funny how they changed the name from Netware
to Intranetware once it became a popularly used term :) :)
Ok, I've seen this with Linux.  Now it makes sense! :)
volu
and
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es.
Next question.  I'd like to move my BBS file storage drive to the server so I
could access it by more than just my BBS machine with modems and stuff on it.
Right now, it's a DOS drive.  Can this be mounted easily enough or do I need
to set it up as NFS drive and thus backup all the data, and copy it back
fter
the disk is re-paritioned?
So I've heard :)  Just like NTFS and HPFS and FAT32, etc.  Oh the joys of
incompatible file systems :) :)
volu
An object! :)
Gotcha.  I'm not planning on doing anything like that right now.  Possibly if
I do something on a larger scale (more than 10 machines) but I definately do
not see that for a while :) :)
think
can
Really... Hmm, odd.  One question I've been trying to answer is how they
handle the cd jukeboxes I've seen at such places such as Insight.  Right now,
the biggest cd device I've used has been my 2 7-disc NEC changers :)  Not
that I would setup 100 cd-roms here, but I was wondering if netware would do
anything with expanding past 26 drives...
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I've been doing some reading at the bookstore and in the manual (a little
help, but more use of terms then explaining them).
ak
are
Personally I've never setup any network, but i have worked on many including
UNIX at my college, a small netware based network years ago in highschool
not
much past the workstation and fooling around with directories), and a little
with windows95 and NT.  But nothing at all major like what I'm about to
attempt <G>