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- Number: A2TH073190U222
- Subject: More Tips on Upgrades from 386 v3.0 to v3.1
- Date: August 21, 1990
- OS Version: 386
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: Just a few tidbits on upgrading for NetWare 386 v3.0 to v3.1.
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- HOW: To perform an upgrade, you boot your server to DOS and load
- the 3.1 version of SERVER.EXE. Next, load the 3.1 version of
- the disk driver, then load the 3.1 version of the install NLM.
- Go to the SYSTEMs option in INSTALL, and choose the option to
- "Copy System and Public files". After selecting this option,
- the INSTALL utility will prompt you for the appropriate disks.
- When its finished it will return something to the effect
- "Upload Complete" to the screen.
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- PROBLEMS: All customers should now be receiving Btrieve with their
- Update (Upgrade) kits. However, if you help a customer that
- does not have Btrieve, or thinks he doesn't, here's some
- hints: 1. The Btrieve disk is not bundled (in the three
- boxes) with the rest of the software, it's shrink wrapped by
- itself with a manual. The part number on the outside of the
- shrink wrapped package is 883-001053-001 A. 2. The Btrieve
- disk is the last disk that you're prompted for; so if the
- customer doesn't want to load it, have them abort after the
- print services and utilities disk.
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- There have also been reports that INSTALL will not copy the
- system and public files; it prompts you for the disks, but
- nothing gets copied. We are investigating this.
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- One other area where customers may feel some grief would be
- if they are using the OLD DCB driver that went out with v3.0
- and the Generic SCSI option. If they have this combination
- of circumstances, they will have to delete the volume(s) and
- the partition on the drive(s) that use the Generic SCSI
- option. We address the drive differently with the newer v3.0
- and v3.1 driver.
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- One other note. If customers are using SHGEN to generate a
- shell and choose the option for "Jumper configured", they need
- to run JUMPER.EXE against IPX.COM and set the appropriate I/O
- and shared memory addresses along with the IRQ. Documentation
- on JUMPER.EXE is found in the README.386 file on the SYSTEM-1
- disk.
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- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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