Upgrading the Operating System to Novell Small Business Suite 6.6

With Novell^® Small Business Suite 6.6, you have two options for upgrading the server operating system:

• In-place upgrade: Involves upgrading a previous version of Novell Small Business Suite software on an existing machine. This option supports upgrading the server software from these versions of Novell Small Business Suite:

  • Novell Small Business Suite 5.1 with NetWare^® 5.1 Support Pack 6 or later and eDirectory 8.6 or later
  • Novell Small Business Suite 6.0 with NetWare 6 Support Pack 4 or later
  • Novell Small Business Suite 6.5

• Migration: Involves installing Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 software on a new computer and migrating previous versions of Small Business Suite data to this new server computer.

  If you have these previous versions of software produced by Novell for Small Business, you need to install a target Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 premigration server and then migrate the data from these servers:

  • Novell Small Business Suite 4.2
  • Novell Small Business Suite 5.0
  • Novell Small Business Suite 6.0

    To migrate a Novell Small Business Suite 6.0 server, perform an in-place upgrade and then migrate it as a 6.6 server.

  • intraNetWare^TM for Small Business

  For procedures, see the NetWare Migration Wizard 8.0 Administration Guide in the OES NetWare online documentation.

Upgrading a server to Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 includes the following tasks:

• Meeting System and Software Requirements
• Preparing the Network with Deployment Manager
• Preparing the Computer
• Performing an Operating System Upgrade
• (Conditional) Upgrading Downed Servers

After performing the upgrade, What's Next leads you to the next steps you might want to perform.

When you run the upgrade program, the server operating system is upgraded to Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 and the following tasks are automatically performed:

• Device drivers and LAN drivers for the Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 operating system are loaded. Outdated drivers are matched with and replaced by new drivers included with Novell Small Business Suite 6.6.
• eDirectory^TM is upgraded to version 8.7.3.
• Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 information is added to autoexec.ncf and startup.ncf.
• Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 files are copied to the server.

Upgrades to Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 are performed on a running NetWare server. For information on performing an upgrade to Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 on a downed server, see Upgrading Downed Servers.