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Broken and mislabeled NetWare 2.15c Images

NCommanderNCommander
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Been trying to test ancient NetWare versions, found some problems with the archive:

https://winworldpc.com/download/8905f1ec-5098-11e8-8d2a-fa163e9022f0 - this has a corrupted (blank) OSEXE-2 disk image, which appears to be required to installed

https://archive.org/details/netware_gnet - this upload of NetWare (which says 2.11, but os2museum notes its actually 2.15) may have the needed disk image to fix it, but I'm having trouble downloading the necessary ZIP file. I'll follow up on this point.

In both cases, these should be marked as Advanced NetWare 2.15/286

https://winworldpc.com/download/41e280ba-c3b5-7b18-c39a-11c3a4e284a2 - this is an ELS Level 2 (Entry Level System) edition of NetWare 286, so it's missing features compared to advanced NetWare. I haven't tested if its installable yet. I'll be testing more as I go through.

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  • NCommanderNCommander
    Status update: OSEXE-2 from the GNET dump works, and I discovered the primary dump is missing more disks. In this case, PROGRAMS-1, and PROGRAMS VAP, although only PROGRAMS-1 is actually needed to install. After pulling those two disks out, I was indeed able to install.



    It does appear the dumped installation media is "used" since it has a prewritten NET$OS on it, but that shouldn't be an end of the world situation. Tagging @SomeGuy so he can see the archive issue.

    I'll test 2.2c and probably should test the ELS II image while I'm at it.

  • SomeGuySomeGuy
    Ok, thanks for pointing those out.

    Status update: OSEXE-2 from the GNET dump works, and I discovered the primary dump is missing more disks. In this case, PROGRAMS-1, and PROGRAMS VAP, although only PROGRAMS-1 is actually needed to install. After pulling those two disks out, I was indeed able to install.

    You mean all of those disks were also in that dump from archive.org?
  • NCommanderNCommander
    OSEXE-2 and PROGRAMS-1 are in the GNET dump. There are a few other disks in the GNET dump that isn't in Advanced NetWare 2.15c. As the GNET dump is a branded release, it's hard to know what should and shouldn't be there, but I had to pull those two disks to get an installed system.

    I don't have a *working* system because of network issues, but that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
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