Upgrading to NetWare 6

To run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade, complete the following tasks:

1. Prepare the Workstation
2. Prepare a Staging Server
3. Prepare the Network
4. Prepare the Target Server
5. Run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade
6. Complete Post-Upgrade Tasks

Prepare the Workstation

• A Windows 95/98, Windows NT*, Windows 2000, or Windows ME workstation with 50 MB of available disk space.
  • The Windows 95/98 and Windows ME workstations must be running Novell^® Client^TM version 3.3 or later and Support Pack 1 or later
  • The Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstations must be running Novell Client for Windows version 4.8 or later and Support Pack 1 or later

• PS/2* or serial mouse recommended, but not required.

Continue with the next section, "Prepare a Staging Server."

Prepare a Staging Server

The staging server holds a copy of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD files. From this one location, all targeted servers can be upgraded. The staging server can be any server other than the server you plan to upgrade and the client workstation you are using to run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade.

1. Do one of the following:

   • Copy the NetWare 6 Operating System CD files to a volume on the staging server. Make sure that all target servers can access the staging server and the client workstation.
   • Mount the NetWare 6 Operating System CD as a volume on the staging server.

2. (Conditional) If you are upgrading a target server that does not have NICI installed, copy the NetWare 6 NICI file to your target server. Do one of the following:

   • If you copied the NetWare 6 CD files in Step 1, create directory named License at the root of the copied NetWare 6 Operating System CD and then copy the #.NFK file from the NetWare 6 License/Cryptography diskette to the newly created License directory.
   • If you mounted the NetWare 6 Operating System CD, rename the #.NFK file to NICIFK (no extension is needed) and then copy the #.NFK to the SYS:SYSTEM directory on every target server that you plan to upgrade that does not have the NICI installed.

3. (Optional) Specify disk drivers manually.

   Although not recommended, you can load disk drivers that are not provided on the NetWare 6 Operating System CD or bypass the hardware auto-detection used while running NetWare Accelerated Upgrade. For more information, see Specifying Disk Drivers Manually.

4. (Optional) Customize the NetWare Accelerated Upgrade script files.

   WARNING:  Customizing the installation process could affect the way that NetWare 6 is installed. This might result in an upgrade failure and might make your server unusable.

   Customizing script files lets you add more menu options or install additional software or patches that are not standard features of the NetWare 6 installation.

   For information on using script files, see "Upgrading an Enterprise Using the NetWare Accelerated Upgrade" (AppNotes, April 1999) at the Novell Developer Net Web site.

When the source server is ready, continue with the next section, "Prepare the Target Server."

Prepare the Target Server

The target server is the NetWare 4 or NetWare 5 server that you plan to upgrade to NetWare 6. Make sure your target server meets the minimum requirements listed below.

WARNING:  Do not use NetWare Accelerated Upgrade to upgrade the first server in your tree to NetWare 6. You must already have a server running NetWare 6 in your tree in order to use NetWare Accelerated Upgrade. If you do not already have a server running NetWare 6, do an inplace upgrade on a server in your tree, and then upgrade the rest of the servers in your tree with NetWare Accelerated Upgrade.

• A server-class PC with Pentium* Pro or Pentium II or higher processor with a minimum of 180 MB of RAM. 512 MG of RAM is recommended.

  HINT:  180 MB is the minimum requirement. If you plan to install additional products after the upgrade, you might want to take into account the additional memory requirements those products will have and plan for them now.

• Make sure the target server has enough disk space.
  • 30 MB of available disk space on the DOS partition. The recommended total size of the DOS partition is 100 MB.
  • 1 GB minimum available disk space on volume SYS:. However, the total recommended size of volume SYS: is 2 GB.

• (Optional) Load the RSPX and REMOTE NLM^TM programs (for the IPX^TM protocol) or the RCONJAG6.NLM program (for the IP protocol) on the target server if you are using script files to upgrade your server and you want to see and access the target server's server console from the client workstation.
• (Conditional) If your target server is running ZENworks^TM for Servers 2, you must unload this application before upgrading your server. For more information about upgrading servers with ZENworks, see ZENworks for Server 2 Installation and Setup Guide > Installing and Setting Up Management and Monitoring Services > Setting Up Management and Monitoring > Starting and Stopping Services.

  To stop the Policy and Distribution Services, follow these steps:

  • Enter CTRL/ESC at the server console of the NetWare server to list the processes that are currently running.
  • Select Distributor from the list.
  • Prompt enter Exit, at the Distributor console.
  • Select Subscriber from the list.
  • Prompt enter Exit, at the Subscriber console.
  • Select ZENworks for Servers from the list.
  • Prompt enter Exit, at the ZENworks for Servers console.
  • Select Remote Web Console from the list.
  • Prompt enter Exit, at the Remote Web Console.

The following table lists the procedures that NetWare Accelerated Upgrade does not support during a NetWare 4 or NetWare 5 upgrade.

Table 1. Unsupported Procedures When Upgrading a NetWare 4 or NetWare 5 Target Server

Once you have met the hardware requirements, complete the following steps to prepare your target server to be upgraded:

1. Update the target server with the latest NetWare Support Pack.

   Support Packs are available at the Novell Support Web site.

   • NetWare 4.11 and NetWare 4.2 require NetWare 4 Support Pack 8 (IWSP6A.EXE) or later
   • NetWare 5.0 requires NetWare 5 Support Pack 6 or later
   • NetWare 5.1 requires NetWare 5 Support Pack 2 or later

2. (Conditional) If you are upgrading a server in a multiserver tree that is running NDS^® 7 with NSS volumes, do the following:

   1. Run the NetWare Deployment Manager utility (NWDEPLOY.EXE), located at the root of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD.

   2. Click Network Preparation > Prepare a Server with NDS 7 & NSS.

3. (Conditional) If you are upgrading a server in a multiserver tree that is clustered, do the following:

   1. Run the NetWare Deployment Manager utility (NWDEPLOY.EXE), located at the root of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD.

   2. Click Network Preparation > Prepare a Novell Cluster for Upgrade.

4. Run DSREPAIR > Time Synchronization at the server console of the target server. If you encounter any NDS^® synchronization errors, make sure you resolve these before continuing.

5. Mount all volumes.

   If you have experienced disk errors in the past, you might want to run VREPAIR on all of the volumes on the server to ensure that there are no errors.

6. Verify that your target server can communicate with your staging server and your client workstation.

   IMPORTANT:  Make sure that the client workstation, target server, and staging server share the same protocol (IPX^TM or IP).

   If you have problems here, refer to Troubleshooting Server-to-Server Connections.

7. Make sure that you have the Supervisor right to the container where the target server resides.

When the target server is ready, continue with the next section, "Prepare the Network."

Prepare the Network

Because you cannot use NetWare Accelerated Upgrade to upgrade the first server in a multiserver tree to NetWare 6, you must do an inplace upgrade on one server in your tree. Once there is a server in your tree running NetWare 6, you can safely upgrade the rest of your servers using NetWare Accelerated Upgrade.

For instructions on performing an inplace upgrade, refer to Chapter 3, "Upgrade to NetWare 6" in the NetWare 6 Overview and Installation Guide.

If you are upgrading a server in a single-server tree to NetWare 6, you can use NetWare Accelerated Upgrade; however, you will need to manually extend the NDS schema after the upgrade. If you want the schema updated automatically, it is best to do an inplace upgrade.

Continue with the next section, "Run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade."

Run NetWare Accelerated Upgrade

1. From your workstation, log in to the staging server and double-click the NetWare Accelerated Upgrade executable (ACCUPG.EXE), located at the root of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD.

2. Read the Welcome screen and click the right-arrow.

3. Enter the location where you copied or mounted the NetWare 6 files to the staging server and click the right-arrow.

4. Enter the password to the staging server (the server that holds the copy of the NetWare 6 CD files) and click OK.

5. Select your target server from the list and click the right-arrow.

6. If prompted, enter the username, password, tree name and context for the target server, and then click OK.

7. Click the right-arrow.

   At this point, NetWare Accelerated Upgrade checks the target server to make sure that the selected server meets the minimum software and hardware requirements of NetWare 6. This might take a few minutes.

8. Review the critical requirement screen and make sure that the target server meets the minimum NetWare 6 server requirements.

   NOTE:  If you have applied the Support Packs listed in the Prepare the Target Server, you won't have any problems meeting these requirements.

   Some items appearing on the list are not critical requirements. But the following requirements must be met before continuing:

   • NetWare server version
   • Directory Services version
   • CLIB version
   • HCSS is not loaded (NetWare 4 only)
   • SFT^TM III^TM server is not used (NetWare 4 only)
   • Unsupported drivers are unloaded (NetWare 4 only)

   If the target server does not meet a critical minimum requirement, the server property will be listed in red. NetWare Accelerated Upgrade will not allow you to continue until you have met all critical minimum requirements.

   IMPORTANT:  If prompted to update your NICI file, follow the instructions in Step 2 before continuing.

9. Check any of the following options that you want NetWare Accelerated Upgrade to automatically perform during the upgrade, and then click the right-arrow:

   • Reboot the target server after the upgrade is completed.

     Even if you checked this option, there might be an instance where you might need to manually reboot the target server once the file copy is complete.

   • Update the existing drivers on the target server to NetWare 6 LAN and disk drivers.

     Because NetWare Accelerated Upgrade has renamed the STARTUP.NCF file to STARTUP.AUP, during auto-detection, NetWare Accelerated Upgrade will restore the original STARTUP.NCF and then loads the appropriate .HAM and .CDM drivers that NetWare 6 supports.

     If device drivers are not found for a device currently loaded in the former STARTUP.NCF or AUTOEXEC.NCF files, the LOAD line will be deleted or copied to the new file and then commented out.

     WARNING:  If the target server contains any disk drivers that are not compatible with NetWare 6, they cannot be replaced during the hardware auto-detection process and your server cannot be upgraded. To avoid this, unload any drivers that are not compatible with NetWare 6 before you complete the upgrade. NetWare Accelerated Upgrade automatically detects unsupported drivers and will warn you about proceeding.

   • Remove any unsupported DOS utilities existing on the target server (NetWare 4 servers only).

10. Review the list of products that NetWare Accelerated Upgrade is going to install and click the right-arrow.

    Once you click the right-arrow, you might need to wait a few minutes before the Progress Screen appears.

11. Monitor the Progress Screen and click Close when the NetWare 6 Operating System files have been copied to the target server.

    Your target server has now been upgraded to a NetWare 6 server. NetWare Accelerated Upgrade does not install additional network products during the upgrade. To install additional network products, see Installing Additional Networking Products.

Continue with Complete Post-Upgrade Tasks.

Complete Post-Upgrade Tasks

Installing Licensing Certificates

Because the NetWare Accelerated Upgrade utility does not install licenses, use iManage via NetWare Web Manager to install license certificates on the new NetWare 6 server.

NOTE:  If licenses are installed at the [Root] of the NDS tree or you are on an MLA account, you might not need to install additional licenses.

1. Go to NetWare Web Manager by entering the following into a Web browser:

   https://nw6serveripaddress:portnumber

2. Click the iManage icon.

3. Click License Management > Install Licenses.

4. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Installing Additional Networking Products

NetWare Accelerated Upgrade does not install additional products. If you want to add network products, you can do so in one of two ways:

• Through the server console by clicking the Novell icon on the servertop and then Install.
• Through Deployment Manager (located at the root of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD).