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- Number: A2TH073190U222
- Subject: More Tips on Upgrades from NetWare 386 v3.0 to v3.1
- Date: August 21, 1990
- OS Version: 386
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: Here are a few tidbits on upgrading for NetWare 386 v3.0 to
- v3.1.
-
- HOW: To perform an upgrade, you boot your server to DOS and load
- v3.1 of SERVER.EXE. Next, load v3.1 of the disk driver,
- then load v3.1 of the INSTALL NLM. Go to the SYSTEMs option
- in INSTALL and choose the option "Copy System and Public
- Files".
-
- After selecting this option, the INSTALL utility will prompt
- you for the appropriate disks. When it is finished, it will
- return something to the effect of "Upload Complete" to the
- screen.
-
- 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 diskette is not bundled (in the three boxes)
- with the rest of the software. It is shrink wrapped by
- itself with a manual. The part number on the outside of
- the schrink wrapped package is 883-001053-001 A.
-
- 2. The BTRIEVE diskette is the last diskette that you are
- prompted for, so if the customer doesn't want to load it,
- have them abort after the PRINT SERVICES AND UTILITIES
- diskette.
-
- It has also been reported that INSTALL will not copy the
- SYSTEM and PUBLIC files. It prompts you for the diskettes,
- but nothing gets copied. We are investigating this.
-
- One other area where customers may feel some grief is 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.
-
- 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 diskette.
-
- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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