Novell NetWare 5.1 installation is requesting to select a Platform Support Module
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- Select Yes and press [Enter].
- Then, at the Choose the Platform Support Module (PSM) Driver dialog box, select MPS14.PSM and press [Enter] to continue.
For more information refer to Novell Knowledgebase Technical Information Doc.# 10052541.
During a full install of intraNetWare, INSTALL.NLM calls MPDETECT.NLM which checks your system for additional processors. If MPDETECT.NLM finds more than one processor, you will be given the option to install SMP. MPdetect will automatically highlight what it considers the most appropriate PSM for your hardware.
Note: intraNetWare for Small Business does not give the option to install SMP during an initial install, but SMP can be added later in exactly the same way it can be added to intraNetWare.
Note: intraNetWare for Small Business does not give the option to install SMP during an initial install, but SMP can be added later in exactly the same way it can be added to intraNetWare.
Installing/Uninstalling SMP New with intraNetWare, INSTALL.NLM now contains the menu item 'Multi CPU options.' This option allows you to install or uninstall SMP. See the NetWare 4.11 manual Supervising the Network, Chapter 8 for more detailed instructions.
To manually enable SMP:
To manually enable SMP, add the following three lines to the STARTUP.NCF file:
To manually enable SMP, add the following three lines to the STARTUP.NCF file:
- load mps14.psm ;or whichever PSM is appropriate for your hardware
- load smp.nlm
- load mpdriver all
With SMP it is also recommended that you add 'set upgrade low priority threads=on' to the autoexec.ncf file. This will prevent possible problems with low priority threads such as compression and suballocation not getting enough processor time to perform their necessary functions.
If you are troubleshooting high utilization or not using SMP, turn low priority threads off. Note: Be careful with this parameter as it can cause high utilization issues in versions of NetWare other than SMP.
After these lines are added, restart the server. Make sure to use the correct Platform Support Module for your hardware. If you are unsure of which PSM module to use, then use the automated install or contact your hardware vendor. It is best to add these three lines to the beginning of the STARTUP.NCF file immediately following the patch load lines. Loading any other NLMs before loading the SMP modules is not recommended and will likely result in problems.
To manually disable SMP:
To disable SMP, simply comment out the three lines in the STARTUP.NCF file that enable SMP then restart the server.
To disable SMP, simply comment out the three lines in the STARTUP.NCF file that enable SMP then restart the server.
COMMENTS: Refer to Novell Knowledgebase Technical Information Doc.# 10052541.
So, my boss and I were having a conversation last week and somehow we ended up on the subject of NetWare. A few days later, he surprised me with a box that complete with a Netware 5.1 CD-ROM, some floppies and the documentation from Novell that he came across in one of the IT storerooms (he also came across some old gear since he knows I'm into that, so I took home a pair of PIII Gateway E3200 slimlines, a PII Optiplex 100, a Power Macintosh 5000 AIO [just like what I used in kindergarten, LOL], an old 486DX Dell [complete with original monitor and *mechanical* keyboard/mouse] and a huge box of miscellaneous parts with a PII Compaq Armada laptop right on the top. There was more but it was mostly boring 2005-era stuff and a lot of printers).
So, on the drive home I was toying around with an idea. Not about the old gear (that's for another day), but about the copy of Novell NetWare I was given. As for the old gear, I think it's time for a trip to Ikea for another desk or two
I currently have two Ubuntu Server 16.04 machines, my prior A10 workstation (primary) and an old IBM Intellistation M Pro (secondary/synchronized). My Synology NAS is synchronized one-way with the primary. The primary serves as a file/print server, firewall and just for kicks and giggles, a deployment server. The secondary is just a file server synchronized one-way with the primary. The IBM is pretty old but it's still kicking. The A10 will eventually become my secondary since I eventually plan on replacing it with a new primary in addition to a pfSense firewall box. It's definitely overkill for home use, but in lieu of gaming, a home lab is my hobby.
So, as far as the IBM goes, I'd like to put NetWare 5.1 on it. It would still serve as a secondary server to the primary, which uses the NFS protocol. I'm pretty sure that NetWare could work with NFS; a cron job on the primary to complete a scheduled one-way synchronization with the NetWare server would be simple.
This idea is probably crazy. NetWare is in the past and for the most part, it's no longer used. I have heard that Novell's security vulnerabilities were mostly involved with physical access to the console. I'm not sure if that still remains true, though I think at this point in the game, it's security by obscurity. I don't need to learn Novell, since I'm pretty sure I will never run into a NetWare environment in this day and age, it's just that I want to, just because.
So, on the drive home I was toying around with an idea. Not about the old gear (that's for another day), but about the copy of Novell NetWare I was given. As for the old gear, I think it's time for a trip to Ikea for another desk or two
I currently have two Ubuntu Server 16.04 machines, my prior A10 workstation (primary) and an old IBM Intellistation M Pro (secondary/synchronized). My Synology NAS is synchronized one-way with the primary. The primary serves as a file/print server, firewall and just for kicks and giggles, a deployment server. The secondary is just a file server synchronized one-way with the primary. The IBM is pretty old but it's still kicking. The A10 will eventually become my secondary since I eventually plan on replacing it with a new primary in addition to a pfSense firewall box. It's definitely overkill for home use, but in lieu of gaming, a home lab is my hobby.
So, as far as the IBM goes, I'd like to put NetWare 5.1 on it. It would still serve as a secondary server to the primary, which uses the NFS protocol. I'm pretty sure that NetWare could work with NFS; a cron job on the primary to complete a scheduled one-way synchronization with the NetWare server would be simple.
This idea is probably crazy. NetWare is in the past and for the most part, it's no longer used. I have heard that Novell's security vulnerabilities were mostly involved with physical access to the console. I'm not sure if that still remains true, though I think at this point in the game, it's security by obscurity. I don't need to learn Novell, since I'm pretty sure I will never run into a NetWare environment in this day and age, it's just that I want to, just because.