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Ok, I thought I’d kick this thing off, by installing the most popular NOS (network operating systems) on Qemu. First I tried the 2.x stuff, and it just crashes on the bootup of the kernel. Which is frustrating, as it required me to shuffle floppies like there was simply no tomorrow. I also have a copy of 4.1, which I’ll do at some other time. Let’s get to the list of our requirements: • Qemu 0.9.0 I’m going to use the windows pre-compiled version that can be found here: • MS-DOS, or I suppose you can you any DOS compatible OS. I haven’t tried DR-DOS, or FreeDOS.

Link and the installation instructions (this file) from the NWPA Update Package Installation Instructions for NetWare 3.12 link on the same page. Install DOS and the CD-ROM driver on the target server machine. Insert the NetWare 3.12 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive and the NetWare 3.12 SYSTEM_1 diskette into the floppy drive.

For this installation I’m going to be using MS-DOS 6.22 that is available on MSDN. • An IDE cdrom device driver. I’ve had mixed results with various drivers, however I like IDECD.SYS available from: • An ISO Image of your Netware 3.12 CD.

For the real unfortunate you’ll have the floppy version • Some way to take your license diskette and make an image of it. I like WinImage. Available here: Here is what my directory looks like before I get started. 06:22a 1,474,560 dos622_1.img 06:22a 1,474,560 dos622_2.img 06:22a 1,474,560 dos622_3.img 01:16p 1,474,560 idecd.vfd 04:25p 79,321,088 netware312.iso 12:02a 6,248,207 qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip 10:42a 1,474,560 SYSTEM_1.IMG 05:22p 102,400 unzip.exe Ok, let’s get started! First we are going to unzip the qemu distribution. I’m using Windows 2000 for my host, so I’ve got the commandline unzip from the execellent distribution here: Ironically it’s zipped, so I’ll provide a copy of unzip at my site here: Next cd into the qemu-0.9.0-windows directory.

First we need to make two hard disk images. For whatever reason Netware doesn’t detect the MS-DOS disk partition geometry correctly and will destroy your boot hard disk.

Since we are running under an emulator, virtual hardware is cheap, so adding a second disk is really no big deal. The MS=DOS hard disk is only to boot up, so it won’t be big at all.

I’m going to create a 32 megabyte boot disk, and a 1 gigabyte Netware disk. You can always add more disks, or go with larger disk. Just be forwarned that my Netware didn’t like the MS-DOS disk’s partitioning.

This may be a fault of ISADISK, but then it worked fine on its own disk. Qemu-img create -f qcow netware-boot.disk 32M qemu-img create -f qcow netware-data.disk 1G Ok now with the disks created it’s time to install MS-DOS.

I’m going to assume that you have *some* experence with Qemu, and MS-DOS. -hda netware-boot.disk -hdb netware-data.disk -M isapc -m 16 -net nic -net none -fda. Dos622_1.img -boot a With any luck you’ll be greeted with this image: We are going to just accept the defaults (hit enter a few times) which will partition the first disk, and ready it for the MS-DOS install.

After enough enters, qemu will reboot, and MS-DOS will format the first disk, and then prompt for disk two. We will want to change disks. This part of qemu can be a little scarry for the uninitated, however its quite simple. Click on the qemu window, then hit CTRL+ALT+2. This will bring you to a window like this: I typed in “info block” to show what disk images were mounted where.

Then to change floppy disk images, simply typing in “change fda. Pressing CTRL+ALT+1 changes you back to the qemu display, where you can hit Enter to tell the MS-DOS installation program that you have inserted the second disk image. You will need to repeat this for the third disk.

Once MS-DOS is installed it will prompt you to remove disks and press ENTER. You can simply press enter, and qemu will notify you that your disk is not bootable. Now we are going to boot qemu from the hard disk, and with the idecd.vfd disk image containing IDECD.SYS. I’m going to start Qemu as follows: qemu -L. -hda netware-boot.disk -hdb netware-data.disk -M isapc -m 16 -net nic -net none -fda.

Idecd.vfd Copy the IDECD.SYS device driver from the floppy to the C: DOS directory (copy a: idecd.sys c: dos). Then you will need to edit your config.sys & autoexec.bat to recognize the cdrom.

Append the following line to config.sys using edit device=c: dos idecd.sys /d:cdrom01 And append the following line to your autoexec.bat mscdex /d:cdrom01 Information on edit can be found. Although if you don’t remember MS-DOS edit, you are going to be in a world of pain when we start Netware Ok with the configuration files edited, we can close Qemu, and now start it again as follows: qemu -L. -hda netware-boot.disk -hdb netware-data.disk -M isapc -m 16 -net nic -net none -cdrom. Netware312.iso -fda. Biografia shekina ualihanova na kazahskom yazike s perevodom. System_1.img During the MS-DOS install the netware data disk may have been formatted by DOS. This is no big deal, but just keep an eye where your CD-ROM drive is drive letter wise.