Installation problems

What version of Netware are you trying to install? I had the same problem with NetWare 4.1x. But NetWare 5.x works fine with a Win 9x boot disk. I used a MS DOS 6.22 boot disk. Good luck.

What version of Netware are you trying to install? I had the same problem with NetWare 4.1x. But NetWare 5.x works fine with a Win 9x boot disk. I used a MS DOS 6.22 boot disk. Good luck.

If your system has an AGP video card remove it. If it is integrated in the motherboard find an old S3 or ATI video card and use it instead.

Just a follow-up to crockerp's comments. You should not use a win9x boot disk to install any version of NetWare. As for your question, more info on your system is required.

After starting up in dos: on the installation CD (e.g. D: ), manually perform:
CD \INSTALL\IBM\DOS\XXX\_
SELECT MAIN
If this does not work then you may need to investigate a driver or hardware incompatibility. In particular, customers have found that this condition may occur when installing under Microsoft's DOS 7 from Windows 95. Recent feedback suggests systems that have had the system transferred with Microsoft's Windows 98 DOS version also will experience this fault.
This worked for me.

Check your config.sys and autoexec.bat.

The only entries that should be present are the ones needed for the cd rom drive; the line to load the cd rom driver in config.sys and the line for mscdex in autoexec.bat.

Delete any reference to himem.sys or emm386.

Hope this sorts it!

I would also use a ms-dos 6.22 dos boot disk and ensure you have no emm386 0r himem.sys loaded in config.sys. Also specify buffers=40 and files=30

do not load any memory manager!!!
(himem.sys;emm386.exe etc.)
dos must run in 640kb memory area.

If this is a Netware 5.0 or above CD, the best way is to boot right off the CD.

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