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OS/2 Client Driver, Server Drivers for Novell NetWare Environments, Starting MS-DOS, install
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Chapter 6. Then connect the NIC expansion card to its network. 4. Turn on the system. 5. When the Starting MS-DOS message is displayed, press to prevent loading any drivers or memory managers. 6. Insert the NIC driver diskette into drive A. Then type a: and press . 7. Type install and press . 8. Select CONFIGURATION AND DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM from the Main Menu. 9. Scroll the list of NICs and find the integrated NIC and the NIC expansion card you installed. Write down the slot number and bus number for each. 10. Type the following commands and press after each: cd c:\nwclient edit net.cfg 11. Find the following LINK Driver 3C90X section in the file: LINK Driver 3C90X ; ; BUS NN ; SLOT 7 12. Delete the semicolon from the BUS NN line and replace NN with the bus number for the integrated NIC. Use the bus number you recorded in step 9. 13. Delete the semicolon from the SLOT 7 line and replace 7 with the slot number for the integrated NIC. Use the slot number you recorded in step 9. 14. Copy the four modified lines shown in step 11 and paste them below the original four lines. Then modify the BUS and SLOT lines to reflect the bus number and slot number for the NIC expansion card. 15. Restart the system. OS/2 Client Driver NOTE: The OS/2 drivers are available from the Dell BBS. See the chapter titled "Getting Help" in your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for the contact number for your location. Install the OS/2 client driver as follows: 1. Connect the integrated NIC to its network according to the instructions in "Connecting to a Network" found earlier in this chapter. 2. Exit to MS-DOS by doing one of the following: • Restart the system with a clean, bootable MS-DOS diskette in drive A. • Type the following commands in an OS/2 win- dow, pressing after each: cd /os2 boot /dos 3. Insert the NIC driver diskette into drive A. Then type a: and press . 4. Type install and press . 5. From the Main Menu, select DRIVER INSTALLATION AND UPDATE and press . 6. From the Network Drivers menu, select INSTALL NOVELL NETWARE DRIVERS and press . 7. From the Novell NetWare Drivers menu, select COPY OS/2 ODI DRIVER and press . 8. If you want to copy the driver to c:\netware, press . To copy the driver to another directory, type the path and press . Server Drivers for Novell NetWare Environments You can configure your system as a server computer under either Novell NetWare 3.12 or 4.10. The drivers for these network operating systems are located in the \nw312 and \nw410 directories on the NIC driver diskette. Instructions for installing and configuring these drivers are contained in the help.exe program on the NIC driver diskette. 4-6 Dell OptiPlex GXi Low-Profile Systems Reference and Installation Guide