Can you change Novell Boot Partition? URGENT

[basil3legs]

Is it possible to change the drive partition that Novell starts from? We have Novell 3.12 and the DOS partition no the main drive is fine but it won't go into Novell. However, the drive is mirrored but the muppet who set it up did not mirror the boot partition, only the Novell partition.

What we need to do is set the Dos partition to see the second drive as the Novell partition. Can this be done?

Alternatively, what is a good program to ghost the partition from one drive to a new one with a copy of the DOS partition on?

Thanks in advance.

This is urgent as, at the moment, the server is in bits!!

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Basil

Well, AFAIK, yes you can, though I have never done it myself.

Take a look at Novell TID 10011974. It is for 4.11 but in the disk setup area 3.12 is very similar, and the underlying logic is the same. It is quite long, so I won't post it here, but they go thru all the steps.

Unfortunately I don't have a 3.12 mirrored machine I can readily get to, so you will be on your own on this.

Regarding ghost - Norton Ghost for Netware.

Jock

 

[basil3legs]

Thanks Jock,

I will keep this on file as at the moment, we have copied the whole of the dodgy drive to another drive (DOS and Novell Partition) and it has actually gone in OK so we are keeping our fingers crossed at the moment that it will stay up for a while. We are then going to remirror this drive properly - DOS and Novell, when we get a chance. There is nothing other than the login info on this partition and we still ave the dodgy drive as a back up at the moment (not in the server though).

I really didn't fancy trying to load from scratch as the floppies (aahhhh!!!) are a tad old now and I would be amazed if they were all sound after all these years!

 

[JockMullin]

Hi Basil

Yeah, not just the floppies but also the floppy drive tends to get grunged up from sitting there sucking air for years and never being used.

I made myself an install CD for just that reason. If you put the floppie contents into folders called INSTALL, SYSTEM_1 ... SYSTEM_8 and UNICODE (must be in caps) then the whole thing happens automatically and is *way* quicker than running from floppy, especially the dreaded unicode disk.

Jock