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Novell NetWare
NetWare 4.x
Virtualization
Recommended Specs
- 64MB RAM
- 10GB IDE disk
- 1 CPU
- PCNet NIC
- Floppy drive
- CD-ROM drive
Installation
Install DOS
Start by installing a copy of DOS on the machine. I use MS-DOS 6.22 but DR-DOS will work fine too. I have not tried FreeDOS.
Partitioning
We'll need to partition the drive into a DOS bootstrap partition, and a SYS: partition for Netware. Recommend a small 50-100MB partition for DOS, and the rest for NetWare.
CD-ROM Driver
We'll also need a DOS CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX in order to load the NetWare installation CD. These Samsung drivers work pretty well.
Once the drivers are installed and loaded, run the NetWare installer at D:\INSTALL
NetWare Installation
Select no for SMP, as we're using a single CPU. NetWare supports multiprocessor but there are issues with getting the idle driver to work for SMP in QEMU/KVM.
Select the MPS14.PSM Intel platform support module.