User Guide
Installation Scripts for NetWare 101
Other Installation Options
103-000143-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
3 Installation Scripts for NetWare
WARNING: This document describes software that is subject to change. Novell
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intends to keep it as current as possible, but the user must assume any inherent
risk in developing or maintaining code based on the information in this document.
Novell may discontinue or decline to support any software feature described within
this document at any time.
This chapter describes the installation script support for NetWare
®
. NetWare
installation scripts let you:
Alter or extend the NetWare pre-packaged installation process.
Install additional products or services onto a NetWare server after the
operating system has been installed.
Using NetWare Installation Scripts
NetWare installation scripts in NetWare 6 are processed by the
NWCONFIG.NLM program.
NOTE: NetWare 4 uses INSTALL.NLM to process script commands.
Script Files
Script files are ASCII text files. They can have any eight-character name with
one of the following extensions:
Extension Type of File
.IPS Individual product installation
.ICS Common functionality between scripts or non-language
specific scripts
.ILS Language-specific functionality