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4.11 revisions and upgrade paths

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by ewai 3 views

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Having inherited two Novell 4.11 servers I am having trouble ascertaining which exact revisions I am running. Spacklog.txt reports that certain patches have been run (up to sp6) but is there a way to tell if these were successful? Also I have been told by Compaq support that they no longer support 4.11 but only 4.2. Is this an upgrade path, and if so what do I need to do to upgrade. I am aware that there are pathces such as sp8 that are for both 4.11 and 4.2 so what is the difference?

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by acurrin

Load install at the console prompt, select Product Options, then View/Configure/Remove Installed Products, this will show the installed service pack level.

4.2 is a dead end upgrade path, many vendors will stop supporting drivers for 4.2 in the next year, and Novell is not upgrading that product.

Support from Novell is the biggest issue. They will not support 4.11.

I would patch to the latest service pack, and wait until your hardware requires an upgrade for speed or drive space and then upgrade to new hardware and OS at the same time, either NetWare 5.1 or can a CNE say it... Windows 2000.

Good luck

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