Meet System and Software Requirements

Preparing the Workstation

Make sure your workstation has the following:

• A Windows 98 or Windows NT 4/2000 workstation with 50 MB of available disk space.
  • The Windows 98 workstation must be running Novell Client^TM for Windows 98 version 3.3 or later.

    IMPORTANT:  NetWare Migration Wizard 6 does not run on Windows 95 workstations.

  • The Windows NT 4/2000 workstation must be running Novell Client for Windows NT version 4.8 or later.

• If migrating from NetWare 4, the IPX^TM protocol should be configured on your Novell Client workstation.
• For better performance, it is strongly recommended that the source server, destination server, and client workstation be running on a common LAN segment.

Preparing the Source Server

The source server is the NetWare server that contains the files, volumes, and NDS objects that will be copied to the NetWare destination server. Valid source servers can be running NetWare 4.11, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, or 6.

• Use ConsoleOne^TM to verify that you have the Supervisor right to the source server's file system and the source server itself.
• Update the source server with the latest NetWare Support Pack.

  Updates are available at the Consolidated Support Pack Home Page.

• (Conditional) If you are migrating data from NetWare 4, make sure that the source server's volumes are running long name space support on all volumes to be copied.

  To add long name space support to a NetWare 4.11 or NetWare 4.2 volume, enter the following at the server console: LOAD LONG and then ADD NAME SPACE LONG TO volumename.

• Load DSREPAIR and run the following three options:
  • Unattended Full Repair
  • Time Synchronization
  • Report Synchronization Status

  Make sure that these finish with no errors.

• Back up NDS and all data.

Preparing the Destination Server

The destination server is the new computer that will receive the data from the source server. This server must be installed into a temporary tree.

After data is migrated from the source server to the destination server, the destination server reboots and Migration Wizard automatically modifies the destination server's AUTOEXEC.NCF file to include the source server's name and internal IPX^TM number/server ID. You don't have to modify these manually.

Valid destination servers can be running NetWare 5.0, 5.1, and 6. Migration Wizard does not migrate to NetWare 4 destination servers.

Review the following tasks before installing the NetWare operating system on the destination server:

• Use ConsoleOne to verify that you have the Supervisor right to the destination server's file system and the destination server itself.
• Make sure you create a temporary NDS tree with a temporary NDS tree name.

  IMPORTANT:  The temporary name and temporary NDS tree name must not be the same as the source server's name or NDS tree name; otherwise, the destination server will not assume the identity of the source server after the migration.

• During the installation, create volumes on the destination server that are the same size as, or larger than, volumes on the source server.

  Volume names on the destination server must be the same as the volume names on the source server.

  Migration Wizard migrates compressed volumes. If you are migrating compressed volumes to uncompressed volumes, Migration Wizard decompresses the volumes during the migration. Make sure you have enough room on the uncompressed volume to accommodate the source volumes once they are decompressed.

• If migrating from NetWare 4, install and configure the IPX protocol.

  The IPX protocol must be bound to the destination server for the migration to work. (You can remove IPX after completing the migration.)

  IMPORTANT:  IP addresses for the source server will not be migrated. For more information on changing your IP addresses, see Step 3.

• Install the destination server with the NetWare operating system that you are migrating to.
  • For instructions on installing NetWare 5, see the NetWare 5 Overview and Installation Guide.

    Make sure that you select the New Server option on the Additional Products and Services screen during the NetWare 5 installation, and deselect all products except SMS.

  • For instructions on installing NetWare 5.1, see the NetWare 5.1 Installation Guide.

    Make sure that you select the custom option on the Installation Options screen during the NetWare 5.1 installation, and deselect all deselectable products except SMS. Don't worry about any default products that you can't deselect.

  • For instructions on installing NetWare 6, see the "NetWare 6 Overview and Installation Guide".

    Make sure that you select the Pre-migration server option during the NetWare 6 installation. And then select the custom option so that you can verify that you have enough room on your destination server to accomodate your source server data.

Continue with the next section, "Run Migration Wizard."