Accessing the Installation Files

Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 can be installed from the server's local CD drive or from installation files located on the network.

  1. Insert the Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 NetWare 6.5 CD 1 Operating System with SP3 CD and boot the computer.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • If the computer boots from the CD, follow the on-screen prompts and skip to Selecting the Initial Installation Settings.

      Starting in NetWare 6.5 SP1, Novell added an option during a new server install to use NetWare as the Boot OS instead of Caldera DOS (overlay install only). This option allows you to proceed with the OES NetWare Install program directly without having to boot DOS first. To use this option, make sure your computer is set up to boot from the CD drive before the hard drive. Skip to Selecting the Initial Installation Settings.

    • If the computer does not boot from the CD, continue with Step 3.

  3. Boot your computer with DOS 3.3 or later.

  4. Access the Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 NetWare 6.5 CD 1 Operating System with SP3 CD.

    If you installed CD drivers in to the disk drive, make sure that the logical filename of your CD drive (specified in config.sys and autoexec.bat) is not CDROM, CDINST, or CDDVD.

  5. (Optional) To install from Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 files located on a network, do the following:

    1. Make sure that the DOS config.sys file contains the FILES=50 and BUFFERS=30 commands.

    2. Install the Novell Client for DOS and Windows 3.1x or IP Server Connection Utility software located on the Novell Client Software CD.

    3. Copy the contents of both the Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 NetWare 6.5 CD 1 Operating System with SP3 CD and the Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 NetWare 6.5 CD 2 Products with SP3 CD to the same directory on your network.

    4. (Conditional) If you want to copy the GroupWise and Messenger software as part of the installation, you must also copy the contents of the following CDs to the same directory on your network:

      • GroupWise 6.5.4 (NetWare) Admin CD
      • GroupWise 6.5.4 Windows Client CD
      • GroupWise 6.5.4 Messenger CD

      In copying these CDs to the network, you might see messages regarding duplicate files. This is because some of the files for Novell Small Business Suite are placed on both CDs. Proceed past the duplicate file messages and continue the copy to the network.

HINT:  If you attempt to install a new server into your tree at the same time that you upgrade another server in the tree to NetWare, you might have difficulty logging in to the server being upgraded until the other server's installation is complete. Install only one server at time.


Using Updated Files during the Installation

The c:\nwupdate directory structure for NetWare mirrors the directory structure of the install image. Updated files should be placed in the c:\nwupdate subdirectory that corresponds to where they are located in the install image.

There are two notable exceptions to this rule:

  1. Install scripts (sys_inst.ils, dos_inst.ils, defpre.ils, defcopy.ils, etc.) should be placed in the c:\nwupdate directory.

    NOTE:  Defpre.ils and defcopy.ils are dummy scripts called from dos_inst.ils (the first C-Worthy copy) and sys_inst.ils (the second C-Worthy copy), respectively, and are intended to be modified for OEM use. These scripts are also used in NetWare 6.0.

  2. The subdirectories of the c:\nwupdate\drivers directory (\storage, \lan, \psm, \sbd, \cios) have been eliminated. Their files and subdirectories should be placed in the c:\nwupdate\drivers directory.

There is a blackout period during the install when access to the DOS drives (C:, D:, etc.) is prohibited. This occurs during the time that platform support and storage drivers (PSMs, HAMs, SBDs, and CDMs) are detected and loaded. However, they can be loaded from a floppy disk instead.