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- SETTING WINDOWS UP FOR NETWARE
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- Here is a Guide to get windows working with a Novell network
- getting it to run off a novell network is a different story!.
- The following is what worked for me with NO help from the
- "Windows Installation Guide" (Makes a good door stop!), It
- might not work for everybody but it should be a good start.
-
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-
- You Must use IPX ver 3.01 Rev B or better, and NETx Ver 3.01
- Rev x.
-
- If you are using any Lan card that requires to use Irq 2 then
- you will have to change this and Windows gets upset with this
- On an IBM token ring card put switch 8 up (Off) to fix this
- problem. The fix from novell to solve this problem seem's to
- cause more problems later on!
-
- Make sure you have a ordinary config.sys and have NO EMS or
- XMS driver resident in memory, Load IPX and NETx (Do-Not Use
- LANSPACE,EMSNETx or XMSNETx). If you didn't load ipx and the
- shell then remember to pick the network type in the
- installation screen of windows as windows will not see the
- network so it will not automatically load the drivers.
-
- Install Windows as per the windows manual, Next you will
- need to change the SYSTEM.INI file in the windows directory.
- Use any ASCII type editor, first look under the heading:-
- [boot.description]
-
- network.drv=Novell Netware 2.10 or above, or Novell Netware
- 386
-
- ensure that the above line is contained in this area.
-
- Next look under the heading:-
- [386Enh]
- emmexclude=d800-dbff - this is the address used by a IBM
- Token ring card {Actual D8000-DBFF0}
- You must enter your cards own Address
- ebios=*ebios
- display=*vddvga
- keyboard=*vkd
- mouse=*vmd
- network=*vnetbios, vnetware.386, vipx.386
- device=*vpicd - Novells bug fix vpicda seems to stuff
- up when using xms.
-
- Once you have saved the above then you can re start windows
- and use the lan at the same time.
-
-
- Memory and Windows.
-
- Windows dose some very weird thing with memory, you will find
- that very few non-windows applications will work because of
- the base memory left free, usually about 430kb.
- If you try and use programs like lanspace,386max or any other
- program that loads the shell high then windows will crack the
- sads and crash, I won't go into the exact nitty gritty of how
- all this memory cram is resolved but here is a solution that
- I worked out using Quarterdecks QEMM386.SYS device driver and
- EMSNET4.EXE. {QEMM Ver 5.11}
-
- Here is a example Config.sys:-
-
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM386.SYS RAM ARAM=D800-DBFF
- FILES=30
- BUFFERS=20
- DEVICE=C:\LOADHI.SYS /R:5 DXMA0MOD.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 DXMC0MOD.SYS 400010000001
- SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /p /e:1024
- DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS /Y
- LASTDRIVE=K:
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- The first line is the actual qemm device driver, the RAM
- command is to Allow use of ram 640k-1024 for XMS, etc, the
- ARAM part is important to stop the use of memory at the same
- point as your lan adaptor card(s).
- Loadhi.sys is used to load any device drivers into hi ram
- (XMS) although Some mouse drivers will not work 100% if
- loaded into Hi-ram so try and see.
-
- Once windows has installed itself it uses smartdrive.sys and
- himem.sys, delete the lines containing them as qemm386 acts
- the same as himem.sys anyway and smartdrive gets upset on
- some machines when using qemm386.
- You will have to edit SYSTEM.INI file in the windows
- directory for some more changes, Under the heading :-
- [386Enh]
- emmexclude=d800-dbff {see page #1}
- emmexclude=a000-dfff
- IgnoreInstalledEmm=True
-
-
- Add the second and third lines to the file then save it.
-
- The second line emmexclude=a000-dfff (actual A0000-DFFFFh)
- Instructs windows not to use memory in the 640-896K range as
- we use it later.
- The third line IgnoreInstalledEmm=True
- instructs windows not to install its own EMS emulator and to
- use qemm386 instead.
-
-
- Memory and Windows [Cont]
-
-
- After re-setting the machine and the drivers have been loaded
- then here's one way of loading the lan software using
- quaterdecks loadhi.com :-
-
-
- loadhi /b ipx
- emsnet4
-
- If you are using a 3270 or 5250 emulator that uses ipx/spx
- then you can also load TBMI high by using loadhi /b tbmi .
-
- **TBMI.COM and TASKID.COM are required if you intend to use a
- 3270 or 5250 emulation that requires ipx/spx under windows,
- Novell also requires that you remove the vipx.386 line from
- Network=*vnetbios, vnetware.386 line in the system.ini file
- I found that it can cause errors when loading windows and
- that leaving it in seems not to affect anything.
-
-
- Login in to the lan then execute windows.
-
-
- I have no doubt that there are much better ways of doing this
- but this way dose work.
-
-
-
-
- *NOTE:-
- The above has been tested on 386's with Chip &
- Technologies and VLSI Chip sets and on several 486
- machines with 4MB or greater and had no problems,
- But I had troubles with a 386 with a OPTI chipset using
- windows and QEMM.
- To fix this change config.sys to read:-
- Device=c:\himem.sys (windows own EMS)
- Device=c:\QEMM386.SYS RAM ARAM=D800-DBFF MEM=2560 NOXMS
-
- This will enable windows own XMS manager, you can still
- use loadhi for both drivers and IPX etc.
-
-
- Hope this Information Is Of Some help, If anyone Knows any
- better ways of doing the above please let me and everyone
- else know.
-
-
- Regards.
-
- Steve Ruston, Melbourne, Australia.