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Installing the NetWare 3.2 Enhancement Pack (Upgrading to NetWare 3.2)

This page documents my initial attempt at upgrading my install of NetWare 3.12 to NetWare 3.2 using the NetWare 3.2 Enhancement Pack.

NetWare 3.2 doesn't appear to be a standalone release you can just install. It seems to exist as NetWare 3.12 plus the 3.2 Enhancement Pack. Once the Enhancement Pack is installed the server will still report itself as 3.12 but there will be a few minor new features and less bugs. So in this way its kind of just a paid-for service pack.

I didn't receive any documentation with my copy of NetWare 3.2 and there doesn't appear to be any online documentation for it so the process documented on this page may not be the ideal way of doing this. I'm making a few guesses here.

Contents

Tools

To follow along you'll need:

To see creating the VM and installing NetWare 3.12 in a similar level of detail, click here.

Installing

We're starting off with a relatively clean install of NetWare 3.12. All I've done to it since installing it is install NetWare for Macintosh. First thing to do is mount the NetWare 3.2 Enhancement Pack CD-ROM image in the VM then go to the NetWare Console

Then load the installer: load install

Choose Product Options

And at this screen hit the Insert key.

My CD-ROM drive is D:\ in DOS so the path is D:\32ENH. As soon as you hit enter here the installation will start - you won't be prompted again!

Please Wait... (this takes a surprisingly long time)

Installing... This is when I remembered I forgot to take a snapshot of the VM before doing this! Oh well.

Install done! We've now got to go restart netware. Hit any key to continue.

This is the main visible sign that we're running NetWare 3.2: The enhancement pack is listed as an installed product. It escape.

Hit escape again.

Yes, exit

down the server

and exit to DOS

Back at MS-DOS, run server to start NetWare back up again.

Back at the NetWare Server Console. The version still reports itself as v3.12 but that is expected

Over in the install utility (load install, choose System Options, choose Edit STARTUP.NCF File) we can see a few lines were added by the 3.2 Enhancement Pack:

And one line was added to AUTOEXE.NCF

Thats it! NetWare 3.2 installed! This saves a lot of patching (compare the v3.12 minimum patches to the v3.2 minimum patches!)

Where To Go Next

Disclaimer & Comments

I'm not a netware expert, don't have any of those fancy novell certifications and have never administred a netware network; I've just played with it at home occasionally since 2004 or so. Email me if you've got any suggestions or corrections for this page or any extra information you think is worth including here. My address is david at this websites domain name (without the www bit of course).