Installing or Upgrading NetWare Client Software
What Happens during Installation
DOS and NetWare Configuration Files Are Created or Modified
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
If you allowed the installation program to modify your system configuration files, then the previous version of your client workstation’s CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files are automatically saved as CONFIG.BNW and AUTOEXEC.BNW. If these specific .BNW files already exist, then they are overwritten.
If no previous versions of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files existed, new files are created for you.
The lines LASTDRIVE=Z and FILES=40 are added to the CONFIG.SYS file.
The lines @CALL drive:\NetWare_Client_directory\STARTNET and PATH=NetWare_Client_directory/%PATH% are added to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
STARTNET.BAT
The installation program creates a file called STARTNET.BAT in the target directory you specified.
The file contains the following lines, which load the core NetWare Client software:
SET NWLANGUAGE=preferred_language
C:\NetWare_Client_directory\LSL.COM
C:\NetWare_Client_directory\LAN_driver.COM
C:\NetWare_Client_directory\IPXODI.COM
C:\NetWare_Client_directory\VLM.EXE
If you installed the TSA software for allowing the client workstation to be backed up from a server, a line for the TSASMS.COM file would be added after the line that loads the VLM.EXE file.