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Friday, April 25, 2003

Painless NetWare 6.5 Install

Total time to install a NetWare 6.5 beta server with all services selected around 20 minutes start to finish. The only hitch I had was in configuring my monitor and video card to work with the XFree86 server they use. That took 3 or 4 minutes by itself.

Novell's iManager is a Web-based management console that looks like a real improvement on previous versions. The basic install created a 4GB partition on my 18 GB disk. I was able to create a new Data volume to use the remaining empty space with three clicks and entering the word "Data" in a text box.

More impressions as I go along.


11:33:28 PM    comment []

NetWare 6.5 Beta

I'm installing the beta of NetWare 6.5 right now. One of the things the installer does is give you an option of picking a specific type of system to install. Examples include a simple Web server running Apache, an application server running Novell's appserver called exteNd (aka Silverstream), a database server running MySQL, or any of a number of other options.

You can download a copy and try it out yourself from:

 http://www.novell.com/products/netware/beta.html#download

Every Brainshare attendee was given a beta kit for 6.5 plus a nice little binder with demo copies of a number of other products. The NetWare beta kit includes a demonstration server with a business solution built around a company called digital airlines.

More later...


10:53:19 PM    comment []

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