Installing Support Pack 9 on NetWare 4.11
This page covers installing Support Pack 9 on NetWare 4.11. This is the final Support Pack released for NetWare 4.x. I don't have a new enough copy of a Consolidated Support Pack CD so I'm doing this via download.
Firstly, backup your server. Then Download Support Pack 9 and Read the Readme file. When ready copy NW4SP9.EXE onto the SYS volume of the server.
Login to a workstation, change to a drive mapped to the root of the SYS volume, and run nw4sp9.exe. This is a Win32 executable so you've got to use NT or Windows 9x.
It will verify the security envelope for a while...
Then it will extract the support pack files to SYS:NW4SP9. This will take a quite while - I went and made a coffee. Once its done you can safely delete nw4sp9.exe.
Over on the server console, run load install
Choose Product Options
Choose Install a product not listed
Press F3
Enter SYS:\NW4SP9 as the path and press enter
The defaults should be fine. Press F10 to continue.
Files are copied... This will take a while.
All done! Hit enter to continue.
It then sat here for a little while for me.
And then we end up back here. Hit escape.
As instructed, choose NCF files options
And check over your STARTUP.NCF and AUTOEXEC.NCF files to make sure they're ok. I
couldn't look at STARTUP.NCF for some reason - I just got directory path is invalid.
I bet the SP9 installer has unloaded DOS from memory so that when the server is DOWNed it
rebooted (probably what that reboot server checkbox at the start of the install does).
When done reviewing the NCF files you're able to review, hit escape to exit install.
Yep, the installer unloaded DOS to force a reboot. Type y to reboot.
Success!
I've run load config /sd on the server, copied the generated config.txt over to
my workstation and checked in Config Reader: Nothing out of date as far as it knows (though
SP8a is the newest it knows about so this isn't really an authoritative answer)
There are a few post-SP9 patches available which mostly seem to be to do with printing or IP products which you may want to install. The install process for these sorts of patches is usually pretty manual (copying files around) so fi you're not experiencing any of the problems they fix you can probably just ignore them. In particular:
- admn519f.exe - a new version of NetWare Administrator. Fixes a crash if you've got lots of snapins
- psrvr112.exe - updated print server
- nwipadm4.exe - fix an abend with NetWare/IP installed when you choose the "Display all DSSes" option in UNICON -> Manage Services -> NetWare IP
- lprgwyg.exe - Fixes for UNIX Print Services
- ftpservl.exe - Security fixes and an ABEND fix for the FTP Server
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).