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- From: sturm@sun490.fdu.edu (Neal Sturm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: DOS Partition on EXTERNAL disk?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.032523.6754@sun490.fdu.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:25:23 GMT
- References: <MGILMORE.93Jan11103000@beach.csulb.edu>
- Organization: Fairleigh Dickinson University
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- In article <MGILMORE.93Jan11103000@beach.csulb.edu> mgilmore@csulb.edu (Mark Gilmore) writes:
- >
- > I'm interested in setting up a 486 with several external SCSI drives as
- >a NOVELL server. The 3.11 installation manual mentions that the server must
- >contain a DOS partition on an internal disk drive or a floppy (several times
- >from pages 118-132). In particular, Page 119: "Machines that do not have an
- >internal (channel 0) controller must boot with a boot diskette. Only hard
- >disks attached to a standard bus internal controller can boot from a DOS
- >partition."
- > SO...I have no internal hard disk. Am I limited to booting from a floppy?
- >Does a SCSI controller meet the requirements above? Anybody out there running
- >a configuration with no internal hard drive? Or is the NOVELL document wrong
- >in its use of the word "internal" to really mean something else?
- > Thanks for any replies....
- >Mark Gilmore, mgilmore@csulb.edu
- >--
- >Most of the ascetics, it turned out, had not known about chocolate before they
- >took up asceticism. Most of the clients who came to their therapy centers knew
-
- I am running Netware 3.11 on a 486 with only a SCSI 1.2gb hard drive and
- I boot of of that hard drive. I am using HP hard drives, Toshiba hard
- drives, Fujitsu hard drives and Seagate hard drives. All of them are
- 1.2gb each on a seperate server, each with a Procomp S-DCB scsi card and
- each prepared with Procomps DCB-SET-5 software. I create a small 4 meg
- dos partition and the rest is novell.
-
- Neal Sturm
- sturm@fdu.edu
-