User Guide

28 NetWare 6 Overview and Installation Guide

NetWare 6 Overview and Installation Guide

100-004725-001

August 30, 2001

Novell Confidential

Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001

 A Super VGA display adapter

 A DOS partition of at least 200 MB and 200 MB available space

 2 GB of available disk space outside the DOS partition for volume SYS:

 One network board

 A CD drive

 A USB, PS/2*, or serial mouse (recommended but not required)

Recommended System Requirements

For optimal performance, NetWare 6 has the following recommended system

requirements:

 A server-class PC with two-way Pentium III 700 MHz or higher

processors

NOTE: NetWare 6 can run on as many as 32 processors.

 512 MB of RAM

 A Super VGA or higher resolution display adapter

 A DOS partition with 1 GB of available space

NOTE: To determine the optimal size of a boot partition, add the amount of server

memory to the minimum amount of the available disk space. The minimum amount

of available space is 200 MB, so a server with1024 MB RAM has an optimal boot

partition of 1224 MB (1024 MB + 200 MB = 1224 MB). This size will allow you to

do a core dump to the disk drive if required.

 4 GB of available disk space outside the DOS partition

 One or more network boards

 A bootable CD drive that supports the El Torito specification

 A USB, PS/2, or serial mouse

Software and Other Requirements

Depending on the network configuration, you might need one or all of the

following software and information:

 NetWare 6 Operating System CD

 NetWare 6 License/Cryptography diskette

 Supervisor right at the [Root] of the eDirectory

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