Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!milton!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!qiclab!techbook!kenh From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Non-dedicated server with partition > 32M? Message-ID: <1991Feb15.142519.2068@techbook.com> Date: 15 Feb 91 14:25:19 GMT References: Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 26 In article liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes: >I currently have SFT Netware 286 2.11 running in a >non-dedicated server setup. This allows the server >cpu to also be used as a node but it requires the >entire Netware and DOS boot partitions to reside in >the first 32M of disk space. If I were to use a DOS >version > 3.3 (hence large paritions) would that 32M >limit still apply? Is the limitation in the version >of DOS I'm using or is it inherent in Netware? > It's just the BOOT partition that needs to reside in the first 32 MEG, after that you can partition Novell any way you need to. DOS has the 32 MEG limitation. Since you must boot DOS first for non dedicated systems, DOS must have it's boot record at track 0. Once DOS is loaded, you can then load the NW OS. It will read it's own configuration/partition information and act accordingly. Ken -- ****************************************************************************** Ken Haynes, Certified Netware Engineer Technical Support Product Mgr. 900 Support