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From: UKT101@ukcc.uky.edu (Charles Bynaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Creating System 7.0 aliases on Netware 3.1?
Keywords: System 7, fileserver
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.165041.19011@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:50:41 GMT
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In article <1991May30.174451.8488@npd.Novell.COM> timm@Sed.Novell.COM (Tim
Myers) writes:
>In article <1991May28.152050.15871@news.iastate.edu> 
>GR.JLB@isumvs.iastate.edu (Jeff Balvanz) writes:
>> We are running Netware 3.1 on a Zenith 386/33E here...
>> I'm trying to put the Mac System 7.0 diskettes on the
>> server as folders, and try as I might I cannot put a System 7.0
>> alias file on the Netware volume...
>> 
>> To add to the confusion, all of the above works fine on our
>> departmental staff server (which runs Netware 2.2 and is connected
>> to the Macs via a Cayman Systems Gatorbox).
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen this sort of problem?  We will be upgrading to
>> 3.11 on the server (and presumably a newer version of the pc router
>> software on the router) shortly; will this solve the problem?  If it
>> doesn't, I'll have to mount the System 7.0 disks as DiskCopy images,
>> and trying to explain to Joe User how to use DiskCopy will be
>> considerably more difficult than saying "Take these folders and copy
>> them to diskettes with the same names."  Thanks in advance. . .
>
>System 7.0 aliases do indeed work properly with NetWare v3.11 and NetWare 
>for Macintosh v3.0.  However, this is not relevant to your System 7.0 
>distribution woes.
>
>The idea of trying to copy System 7.0 without using the Installer is 
>fundamentally flawed.  You should copy the "System 7.0:System Software 
>7.0:Installer Version" folder from the CD-ROM to the server and make 
>things much easier for your users.  The Installer can be launched from the 
>server volume and there will be NO FLOPPY DISK SWAPS.  If you don't have 
>the CD-ROM, I suppose you should put disk images on the server.
>
>++Tim
>
>===========================================
>Tim Myers
>Senior Software Consultant
>Novell, Inc.
>"Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."
>
Why not use the network install version and just have the end user mount to the
server and then launch the installer from the server. The space needed  on the
install to disk will be different depending on how the mac was booted. I seem
to recall four megs if booted on harddisk, less if from diskette. Remember to
run the compatability checker.

											Charles