12.When the screen displays Loading driver aic7870.dsk, Please Wait, switch to the

System Console screen.

Press <Alt><Esc> to switch screens.

13.The driver prompts you for the slot number. Enter the slot number you calculated for your host adapter, and press <Enter>. (See “Calculat- ing the Slot Number” found earlier in this section.) You are automatically switched back to continue with the installation.

14.When you have correctly entered the slot number, press <F10> to load the driver.

15.If you are using multiple host adapters in your server, you must load the driver again for each host adapter.

NOTE: If your system has multiple host adapters, each host adapter must have its own SCSI bus, and its hardware must be configured properly for use with multiple adapters. See the instructions in the host adapter’s User’s Guide.

Refer to the NetWare User’s Guide for information on installing other NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs). If an error message appears when you attempt to load the driver, see “Troubleshooting for NetWare” found later in this section.

16.Select Continue the Installation to create disk partitions and system volumes, and to specify vol- ume names following the procedures listed in the NetWare User’s Guide.

17.To load the driver automatically at server start- up, make sure the startup.ncf file includes the load command line and correct slot number for your host adapter. See “Using startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf” found later in this section.

Performing a NetWare 3.12 Installation

Follow these instructions only if you are installing Net- Ware 3.12 for the first time:

1.Make backup copies of all Novell diskettes, and use those backup copies as your working diskettes.

2.Boot MS-DOS on your computer.

3.Change to the directory where the installation files are found. For a CD-ROM, the subdirectory is similar to d:\netware.312\english\.

4.Type install and press <Enter>.

Follow the procedures in your NetWare documenta- tion for installing a new server or upgrading to a newer NetWare version.

5.At the NetWare prompt, use the load command to install the driver from the NetWare 3.12 driver diskette you created earlier. You will also need the slot number described in “Calculating the Slot Number” found earlier in this section.

The correct syntax statement to load the Adaptec Family 78xx driver follows:

:load [pathname] aic7870.dsk [options] slot=x

Command line options are not case sensitive. Plac- ing commas between command line options is optional. See “Using the load Command Line Options” found later in this section for optional values.

NOTE: The aspitran.dsk module must reside in the same path as the aic7870.dsk driver because Net- Ware attempts to load the aspitran.dsk file automatically.

6.Load the driver for the first installed host adapter. If you have additional host adapters, you must load the driver again separately for each host adapter.

NetWare determines whether loading the driver causes any conflicts between the host adapter and other installed adapters. If there is a possibility of conflict, the driver is not loaded.

NOTE: To load the driver automatically at server start-up, copy the driver to the server’s start-up directory and modify the startup.ncf file. See the following section, “Using NetWare to Install or Update the Driver,” and “Using startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf” found later in this section for more information.

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