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Rebooting the Server and Creating a Primary DOS Partition
7-4 Installing Netware
Rebooting the Server and Creating a
Primary DOS Partition
To reboot the server, and create a primary DOS partition, follow these steps:
1. Insert the DOS boot disk into Drive A.
2. Reboot the server.
3. To create a primary DOS partition, do the following:
• Using the FDISK program from the DOS disk, install a 15 MB
PRIMARY DOS partition on the existing hard drive and make it
“active.” Your machine will then reboot.
• If storing more than the “normal” amount of driver and executable
files on the local drive (C:, for example), you may need a larger DOS
partition.
4. Using the FORMAT program from the DOS disk, use the following
syntax to make the C: partition bootable:
FORMAT C: /S /U /V:NW41SERVER
[use any 11-character label]
When completed, reboot the system. After the system begins its boot
process, remove the DOS disk.
5. Reboot to test system files. NetWare does not use any external memory
management or software caching.
Verify no HIMEM, EMM386, or SMARTDRV lines exist in the
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
6. Insert your NetWare 4.1 CD-ROM into the drive label-up. Keep your
NetWare 4.1 License disk close by, because it will be read by your flex
drive during the installation.
7. You may want to create a DOS subdirectory to contain DOS utilities to
use them without having to insert a DOS disk.
You are asked later if you want to automatically start the NetWare file
server initialization upon boot (creation of an AUTOEXEC.BAT file).