User Guide

Contents 5
Other Installation Options
104-001234-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
doc_tpl.fm Rev 99a17 28 October 99
Contents
Overview 9
Using NetWare Accelerated Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Automating the NetWare Installation with a Response File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using Installation Scripts for NetWare Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Documentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1 Using NetWare Accelerated Upgrade 11
How NetWare Accelerated Upgrade Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Upgrading to NetWare 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Prepare the Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Prepare a Staging Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Prepare the Target Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Prepare the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Complete Post-Upgrade Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Specifying Disk Drivers Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Troubleshooting Server-to-Server Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Disabling SAP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Detaching from Unauthenticated Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setting the Target Server’s Gate Parameter to Its Default Router IP Address . . . . . . . . . 22
2 Automating the NetWare Installation with a Response File 25
Creating a Response File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Creating a New Response File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Editing a Response File from a Previous Server Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using a Response File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using a Response File during a Server Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Entering a Response File at the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
NetWare Sections and Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
[NWI:Product Information] Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
[NWI:Language] Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34