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NetWare to Linux OES migation questions

Asked by: facutvivo

I have new server hardware with a 750GB RAID5 virtual disk.  I want to migrate a NW6.5SP7 server called TAU to this new server after installing Linux OES2.  TAU has a 500GB DATA volume, and 30GB  SYS volume.  I would like to retain the TAU name after the migration due to OLE linking issues with ACAD DWG and XLS files.  I'm not familiar with Linux disk naming conventions.  Will OES2 allow me to create NSS volume DATA and then I can use SCMT to migrate the DATA volume of TAU to the Linux OES server?  How about renaming the server after the migration?  My plan is to them make the old TAU the new Linux server in order to migrate the TEEGW server which has our roupwise installation.  Please advise, thank you

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2009-09-03 at 19:51:15ID24706689
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by: admin0Posted on 2009-09-08 at 07:22:12ID: 25282139

Hi,

Linux can have disk labels and mount points.

so your DATA here will be something like /DATA/ and SYS will be /SYS/

You can rename the linux server(hostname if you mean) after install.
Hope this helps.

 

by: facutvivoPosted on 2009-09-10 at 14:29:59ID: 25304681

I'm just getting into SLES/OES, so thank you for your expert assistance. I took a NetWare6.5SP7 server with a RAID device, and installed SLES/OES2 on a SATA device.  It's in my tree, and I can see the SYS volume but where is it on the LINUX box, I don't know?  can't find it.   In YAST, Expert Partitioner I see that there are seven devices,  /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, and /dev/sdb3.  the SDA devices are on the 1TB SATA and the SDB devices are on the RAID5 virtual disk.

there is a linux swap mount point SWAP, a Linux native root / mount and a /windows/C K FAT16 mount.

there is no mount for the Novell NetWare partition.  I'm clueless as to what all this means.  I am working through the Bridging NetWare Skills to Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 on-demand flash training, but so far these questions about device s and mount points haven't come up yet.  It's a big change from NetWare, which I've been working with since V2.2 over 15 years ago.  I'm look9ng forward to moving into Linux, but right now I'm totally fumbling around.

 

by: admin0Posted on 2009-09-10 at 23:15:50ID: 25307000

Hi

/dev/sda means the 1st hard drive that linux sees
/dev/sdb means the 2nd hard drive that linux sees

sda1 means the 1st partition of the 1st hard drive
sdb1 means the 1st partition of the 2nd hard drive

You need a program called ncpmount to mount netware volumes.

Typically, its syntax is

ncpmount -S serverHost -V SYS -U username  -P password /home/netware
serverHost is the remote server,  and /home/netware is the local mount point.

I am not entirely sure on how this is done on local volumes... checking ..

 

by: ZENandEmailguyPosted on 2009-09-11 at 09:32:27ID: 25311150

Take a read through Novell courses 3089 and 3090.  These help you understand how to work with OES2-Linux coming from a NetWare background.

The sys volume on your OES2-Linux server is a directory found under /usr/novell

There is sys/PUBLIC and sys/LOGIN directory that a Novell client can attach to.

admin0 is correct about the ncpmount utility and its syntax.

There are several steps to making an OES2-Linux server look just like your NetWare6.5 server.  As long as you configure NSS volumes on OES2-Linux it is fairly easy.

Novell courses 3071, 3072, 3073 (at least 3072) is very helpful in introducing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 to you (which is the base for OES2-Linux).

Scott

 

by: facutvivoPosted on 2009-09-16 at 13:48:52ID: 31624782

to you both, thankee

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