NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              Patched Disk for Install, NetWare 4.01, 3.12
DOCUMENT ID:        TID013595
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               27SEP93
ALERT STATUS:       YELLOW
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         PATDR6.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare 3.12
NetWare 4.01

ABSTRACT:

A new unformatted large capacity drive may not be able  boot from floppy
diskette under the DR DOS 6 supplied with NetWare 4.01 and 3.12. This Patch
contains a 360K and 720K disk image of an updated DR DOS 6. This is not a full
featured DR DOS 6 and is only intended for NetWare 4.01 and 3.12. 

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SYMPTOM
The DR DOS 6 disk will not boot from floppy when trying to install NetWare
3.12 or 4.0x to a new high capacity hard disk drive.

TROUBLESHOOTING
The message "Loading..." appears then all disk activity stops. If the hard
disk drive is removed or simply disconnected the DR DOS 6 diskette will boot
properly. 

CAUSE
This problem appears with some new unformatted hard disk drives. When booting
from floppy the DR DOS 6 kernel will read the hard disk drive's Master Boot
Record (MBR) to determine partitions. These new drives do not contain a valid
MBR due to the manner in which they were low-level formatted and tested. DR
DOS 6 stops booting when it encounters this type of incomplete MBR.

SOLUTION
When the self-extracting file PATDR6.EXE is executed it will contain two DR
DOS 6 disk images. These images are of a 360K 5.25 in. floppy diskette and a
720K 3.50 in. floppy diskette. These images contain a bootable version of DR
DOS 6 that will not exhibit the above problem. 

Self-Extracting File Name:  PAT386.EXE      Revision:  A

Files Included      Size       Date       Time     Checksum

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PATDR6.TXT                 (This File)
393NW.525        369,059     09/27/93    06:00A     7D3B
393NW.350        737,699     09/27/93    06:00A     D985
DISKCOPY.COM      11,401     04/07/92    06:00A     AA69


Installation Instructions:

393NW.525 is a 5.25 inch 360K bootable disk image. 393NW.350 is a 3.50 inch
720K bootable disk image. 

1. Select the appropriate image file for the bootable diskette drive of the
computer that you are trying to install NetWare to. 

2. Use the DISKCOPY program that was supplied to copy the image to a formatted
floppy diskette using the syntax:
     DISKCOPY 393NW.525 A:
or
     DISKCOPY 393NW.350 A:

The DISKCOPY command supplied is not DOS version dependent but the floppy
diskette that will receive the image must be formatted in advance of the
diskcopy. 

3. Use the new disk to boot the server and proceed normally with NetWare
installation.
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