A minor note about Kryoflux dumps. SPS actually recommends that Kryoflux users dump double density floppies in a high density drive so it sounds like the dumps you received may have actually been done following their recommendations. One reason for this is dumping disks this way allows certain copy protection methods to be captured more completely. For disks where there isn't any useful information in the extra tracks, it is trivially easy to simply remove the excess data after capture - as you discovered. There is a rotation speed difference as well but since the flux format captures exact timing and has much higher resolution than is actually needed, it is trivially easy to convert between rotation speeds. This means capturing a 300 RPM disk in a drive spinning at 360 RPM isn't a problem since tools like HXC can process the flux into an image with the correct RPM. This also allows the flux data to be useable even if the drive used to read the disk is a bit too fast or too slow.

I was a CNE for 4.11, 5 and 6 back in the day, made a great living as a network engineer

One of the cool things in Netware 286 was non-dedicated mode; so the server could run in the background on the reception desk, and you get back to the console via a key bind like it was a TSR. I think it needed a separate hard drive for the Netware portion, but having your server running WordPerfect was good times!

@StringerNews1

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NetWare was launched from an active DOS partition, and 386 versions even returned to DOS after shutdown. I'd think that that, or some other DOS partition would work.

@pauldunecat

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@@StringerNews1 It just needed DOS to start, before it went into protected mode. I can go digging for my "Netware 2.15 to 2.2 Update" certification training book but it's in storage so not at hand. If there is more Novell vids, I'll definitely make a trip to the archive. lol

I feel your pain. I used to support a small Novel Netware installation back in the early 1990s. One of the useful features of Netware, was that with the correct BOOT ROM on a supported network card, one could boot a client PC directly off a Netware server without requiring neither a floppy drive nor a hard drive to be present in the client PC. This alone was worth all the pain of setting it up because once set up, I never had to bother with maintaining those client PCs again.

Thank you so much for sharing, I started my networking career as a netware CNA on version 2.2 of netware. I loved working with netware my final technical job was looking after 8 large ish netware 3.12 servers back in 1997. It was a lovely trip down memory lane.

I remember when our old school admin retired leaving behind a netware 3.1 installation for us techy students. It became bsd very quickly after the floppys wore out.

those old colorful dos interfaces are way too sexy. thanks for the content and take care!

Novell was something that always fascinated me when i was a kid but never got a chnace to actually use

I thought I could handle this video - but I started having PTSD NetWare flashbacks and had to stop watching.

@pauldunecat

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It was fine once they moved from VLMs to NLMs. ;-)

Thanks for taking one for the team with this one!

Thank goodness I only did a couple of 2.15? and 2.2.. 3.11 was so nice. Did tons of 3.12, 4.1x and one 5.0 server. Oh, and Nwlite, Personal netware, and Lantastic.

I simply love you, NCommander. You scratch that itch.

I love the stuff you work on.

So cool!

Looking forward to more videos. Hope the move goes well.

Amazing...

The younger generation does not appreciate how challenging the early days of inter-networking were.

Nice Video! Keep up with the good work!

I like your videos

You could add emulation for the license card in 86box, if u still have physical cards I know u patched the keycheck out but it would be a little more authentic with that

please demonstrate ncpfs driver in linux.

How do I k now if I have a complete copy of Netware 3.12? I have like 15 floppies but I don't know if they're complete.

You should try to make DOOM run on a VIC 20 with a tape drive...lol!!

Why is the word "density" always spelled "destiny" in the subtitles?

is the ncommander leaving New Jersey?

5 mins ago, daym

310 views in 35 minutes? Damn NCommander truly fell off

@khikokhoro3456

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Damn no one really cares, bot